“No Use Pointing Fingers At Us, BJP Sold Off Country”: Mamata Banerjee

New Delhi/ Kolkata:

The BJP is utilizing central companies towards us, claimed West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, shortly after the Enforcement Directorate summoned Trinamool MP Abhishek Banerjee and his spouse Rujira Banerjee in an alleged cash laundering case involving coal smuggling.

Whereas the MP from Diamond Harbour has been requested to seem earlier than the company in New Delhi on September 6, his spouse has been requested to seem earlier than them on September 1.

Difficult the BJP to combat towards her celebration politically, the Chief Minister mentioned, “Why are you unleashing the ED towards us. Towards your one case we’ll increase bagfuls. We all know easy methods to combat again. We all know the historical past of Gujarat.”

Stepping up the counter assault, Mamata Banerjee identified that allocation of rights for pure sources like coal comes below the purview of the central authorities.

“No use pointing fingers on the Trinamool for corruption in coal. It’s below the centre. What about its ministers? What in regards to the BJP leaders who looted the coal belt of Bengal, the Asansol area,” she mentioned on the celebration’s basis day programme.

Taking purpose on the centre’s not too long ago introduced Nationwide Monetisation Pipeline plan – the place underutilised authorities property might be monetisatised by bringing in personal participation – Mamata Banerjee accused the BJP authorities of making an attempt to promote the nation’s property.

“The federal government is making an attempt to promote of the nation. Railways, airports, PSUs…they wish to promote all the pieces off. Are you able to promote the soil of the nation?” Ms Banerjee mentioned.

The federal government will monetise property value Rs 1.6 lakh crore from the roads sector, Rs 1.5 lakh crore from the railway sector and Rs 79,000 crore from the facility sector, mentioned NITI Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant. The centre may even monetise Rs 20,800 crore from airports, Rs 13,000 crore from ports, Rs 35,000 crore from telecom, Rs 11,500 crore from stadiums and Rs 45,200 crore from energy transmission sectors.