Modi Accuses TMC of Terror, Mamata Counters
Deccan ChronicleKolkata: A day after the violent mob attack on an National Investigation Agency team in West Bengal for arresting two Trinamul Congress workers in a crude bomb blast case of 2022, Prime Minister Narendra Modi accused the TMC of seeking a “free licence to unleash terror” on the central agencies in the state. Mr Modi, who addressed a Lok Sabha Election campaign rally in Jalpaiguri of North Bengal on Sunday, also branded the TMC as a “party that crushes law and constitution” for violence before he reiterated his pledge to return Rs 3,000 crores of assets and properties, attached by the Enforcement Directorate in various cases of corruption, to the people. I'm taking advice about returning the amount, which were lost in the teachers' recruitment scam, ration scam among others, to the poor.” Mr Modi also repeated his salvo on the TMC for not allowing the central funds under various public welfare schemes to reach the poor people in the state. We have never seen such a situation and it is prevalent across the country now.” Countering Mr Modi's charges of blockade of central welfare schemes in the state, Ms Banerjee pointed out, “The PM has been going around complaining that we don’t allow Ayushman Bharat in Bengal.