“Bengal Disadvantaged Of Railway Finances For Years”: Trinamool’s Derek O’Brien
New Delhi:
The Trinamool Congress lately hit out on the BJP and its supporters for tom-tomming the budgetary allocation this yr for railway tasks in West Bengal, coming particularly within the run up the state meeting polls. The party mentioned those proclamations don’t imagine the selection of tasks shelved through the years and all of the investment that used to be choked via the Centre.
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman allotted West Bengal Rs 6,636 crore on this yr’s annual finances which she learn out in Parliament on February 1.
This, in line with Railway Minister Piyush Goyal, used to be the easiest ever price range earmarked for the state within the historical past of Indian Railways. “It’s 2.five instances the typical quantity allotted between Finances 2009-2014 and 26 according to cent greater than final yr,” he informed newshounds on Thursday and in addition tweeted about it an afternoon previous.
Allocation of Railway Finances for West Bengal for the yr 2021-22, for development world-class rail infrastructure. #AatmanirbharBharatKaBudgetpic.twitter.com/vAn6DcqBij
— Piyush Goyal (@PiyushGoyal) February 3, 2021
“I want to guarantee other people of West Bengal that there will likely be no scarcity of price range at concerned with any challenge in West Bengal if land is to be had and native problems are resolved,” he tweeted.
The Trinamool, alternatively, is not taking it at face worth. In a tweet that indexed out the tactics by which the state used to be disadvantaged of price range and its tasks put into the deep freezer, Rajya Sabha MP Derek O’Brien mentioned, “In election season, BJP’s vacationer gang are touting ‘document Railway allocation’ for Bengal.”
In election season, BJP’s vacationer gang are touting “document Railway allocation” for Bengal. In reality, a couple of rail tasks had been shelved in Bengal and investment choked these types of years.
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How Bengal has been disadvantaged of Railways price range for years pic.twitter.com/fGd26XCZgH
— Derek O’Brien | ডেরেক ও’ব্রায়েন (@derekobrienmp) February 7, 2021
He cited examples of over a dozen tasks introduced for West Bengal via Mamata Banerjee when she used to be Railway Minister that have gained handiest “token monetary allocation” this yr.
Pointing to Finances 2020, Mr O’Brien’s tweet mentioned, “The Centre determined to shelve 20 new connectivity ventures and 10 upgradation tasks introduced via Mamata Banerjee as Minister of Railway, particularly in rural Bengal.”
Accusing the BJP of specializing in a state handiest when its meeting polls way, the Parliamentarian mentioned that from 2016-17 to 2020-21, no new strains have been introduced in South-Jap Railways, let on my own Bengal. He sourced his data from budgetary paperwork.
