Bengal BJP MPs led by state party chief Sukanta Majumdar will meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday to apprise him of “rampant corruption” in the implementation of central schemes by the Mamata Banerjee government.
“All of the (BJP) MPs from Bengal will meet the honourable Prime Minister. We will inform him of the corrupt ways in which the state government has implemented the PM Awas Yojana and the MGNREGA in the state, facilitating unaccounted-for income for members of the Trinamul Congress,” said Majumdar, the Balurghat MP.
The meeting will take place in Parliament on the sidelines of the ongoing Budget session of the House, said sources. All 16 remaining BJP Lok Sabha members from Bengal have been asked to show up.
BJP sources said the move was planned as a part of the party’s strategy to up its ante against Trinamul ahead of the rural polls.
Alleged corruption in the PMAY and the MGNREGA has been a burning issue in Bengal recently. The saffron camp, by virtue of being in power at the Centre, has been vocal against the alleged corruption.
The leaders of Bengal BJP, including Majumdar and leader of the Opposition Suvendu Adhikari, have written multiple times to the Union ministry of panchayat affairs, leveling allegations of malpractice against the state.
Both leaders had also met Union panchayati raj minister Giriraj Raj Singh in December on similar issues. Their primary allegation has been that ineligible individuals, mostly Trinamul supporters, were allocated houses under the PMAY, and that thousands of fake job cards were used to misappropriate money received under MGNREGA.
While multiple central probe teams have visited the state, the Centre has frozen funds under several projects for the state.