Kolkata, Dec 17 (UNI)- West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Sunday said she would raise various state-related matters, including the issue of pending funds related to the100 days’ work programme during her meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi on Wednesday.
“The Centre has stopped releasing our dues for the Awas yojana, health, MGNREGA and centrally-aided schemes for long. We would now raise the issues with the PM during the meeting,” Banerjee told reporters at the Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport (Dum Dum) before leaving for Delhi this afternoon.
“Even the Centre wants us to paint all out health centres in saffron, ” Banerjee alleged. She claimed that the BJP was trying to impose on the common people what they should eat and wear.
Answering a question, the Trinamool Congress supremo asserted that the Parliament security breach was a serious matter. She claimed that it was a “great lapse” on the part of the security system.
Banerjee has lined up a series of official and political programmes during her four-day stay in Delhi.
Sources said Banerjee is scheduled to preside over a meeting of the TMC MPs of both Houses of Parliament on Monday at Banga Bhawan. On the same day, she will meet some national leaders of the opposition parties.
Banerjee, also the Trinamool Congress Chairperson, will participate in the fourth meeting of the I. N. D. I. A bloc leaders on December 19.
There is some speculation that Banerjee will be accompanied by a Trinamool parliamentary delegation, including her nephew and party National General Secretary Abhishek Banerjee, when she calls on the PM on December 20.
Banerjee has of late raised the pitch against the BJP-led Central Government for alleged “withholding” of funds for the100 days work programme (under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act).
“We are not begging as the 100 days work fund is our constitutional right and I am going to Delhi for this on December 18, 19 and 20 as I had already written to the PM and sought his appointment on any of these three days,” she said at a recent public meeting in North Bengal
Banerjee alleged the Centre has stopped its share of funds for health, Banglar Ghar (housing scheme) as also the rural road scheme.
“They are not giving their share of funds. Yet we have not discontinued any welfare and development schemes. They are not even paying the MGNREGA dues,” she reiterated.
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