No central discrimination against Bengal: State BJP chief

Kolkata: West Bengal BJP president Sukanta Majumdar has asserted that Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s “pet phrase” of central discrimination against the eastern state was “wrong as facts and figures show the opposite”.

Majumdar, while presenting the nine-year “report card” of the BJP government at the Centre on Sunday, said that from constructing roads to providing water connection to households, the Narendra Modi government has always helped the state.

He claimed that even though the faulty policy of the TMC government prevented land acquisition for highway expansion, the Centre never plugged the fund flow for building new highways in the state.

“Take the example of the slow pace of widening of National Highway 34. While it takes only five hours to reach Lucknow from Delhi, it takes around a whole day to reach Balurghat from Kolkata. Why is it so? There is no central discrimination in this,” he said.

Majumdar said he wants the state to be known as a place of job-givers and not job-seekers.