Trinamool Congress MP Derek O\u2019Brien on Monday made a \u201cfact checking\u201d of Prime Minister Narendra Modi\u2019s speech in West Bengal\u2019s Sahagunj, countering his statements where he had accused chief minister Mamata Banerjee, her party and her government of preventing development by not implementing Central government schemes. Modi had also raised accusations on corruption, and said people were not to worship Durga.<\/p>\n
PM Modi had called upon the people of Bengal to bring in ashol poriborton<\/em> (real change) in the state. During his visit, the PM also inaugurated several railway projects, including the extension of Kolkata Metro’s North-South line.<\/p>\n O\u2019Brien pointed out the average per person income had \u201cmore than doubled \u2013 from\u00a0Rs 51,543 in 2010 to\u00a0Rs\u00a01.09 lakh in 2019\u201d, countering Modi\u2019s statement that the state had not been allowed to develop. O\u2019Brien also said that \u201cnearly 89 lakh small businesses operate in Bengal today compared to 34.6 lakh in 2012, employing 1.35 crore people\u201d.<\/p>\n PM Modi had said that the Trinamool was not allowing Bengal farmers to benefit from the Centre\u2019s PM-Kisan scheme, and people from the state hadn\u2019t got the benefits of \u201cAyushman Bharat\u201d, — the Central government\u2019s medical insurance scheme. The Rajya Sabha MP pointed out that Bengal had already introduced schemes for farmers and a medical insurance project, Swasthya Sathi. He also pointed out that the state had sent a list of 2.5 lakh farmers to be included in the Centre\u2019s scheme, but \u201cno amount has been disbursed so far\u201d.<\/p>\n PM Modi had also mentioned in his Sahagunj speech that though the Centre had sanctioned Rs 1,700 crore, only Rs 609 crore had been spent in Bengal for a clean piped water connection scheme. To this, Derek O\u2019Brien pointed out that a scheme launched by Mamata Banerjee was being implemented and would provide \u201cpiped water to two crore households at a cost of Rs 58,000 crore\u201d. This is to be fully funded by the state government.<\/p>\n The Prime Minister had also mentioned in his speech that the jute and potato industries in Bengal were suffering. This too, was countered by the Rajya Sabha MP. Earlier, another Trinamool MP, Sougata Roy, had said that the jute mills that have closed down are under the Centre. Derek O\u2019Brien\u2019s \u201cfact-check\u201d list also mentioned the Bengal government\u2019s assistance to Durga puja committees, countering the statement made by PM Modi that people in Bengal had been stopped from worshipping Durga.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Trinamool Congress MP Derek O\u2019Brien on Monday made a \u201cfact checking\u201d of Prime Minister Narendra Modi\u2019s speech in West Bengal\u2019s Sahagunj, countering his statements where he had accused chief minister Mamata Banerjee, her party and her government of preventing development by not implementing Central government schemes. Modi had also raised accusations on corruption, and said […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1236,"featured_media":5658,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[387,57,375,424,49,92,583,46],"tmauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-13017","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-politics","8":"tag-assembly-elections-2021","9":"tag-bjp","10":"tag-centre-state-relations","11":"tag-derek-obrien","12":"tag-mamata-banerjee","13":"tag-narendra-modi","14":"tag-top-story","15":"tag-trinamool-congress"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1236"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13017"},{"taxonomy":"tmauthors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tmauthors?post=13017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}