Suri (WB): Facing protests from people for taking “reduced cash,” a nearby leader of the Trinamool Congress in Birbhum district on Tuesday returned around Rs 2.25 lakh to over 100 beneficiaries of government schemes from whom he had taken it as fee and apologized to them.
Trilochan Mukhopadhyay, a TMC sales space president on the district’s outskirts, headquarters town Suri, returned the quantity he had taken to present jobs to 141 people under the MGNREGA scheme. “I have apologized to the people and returned the money. I promise I won’t do it once more,” Mukhopadhyay said.
The development came days after neighborhood people staged a demonstration outside his residence, a traumatic instant return of “cut cash” he had taken in the past few years. An assembly of gram panchayat turned into the call, and he was pressured to return the money.
Each of the 141 people was given around Rs 1,600. Local people claimed that a total of around Rs 2. Forty-one lakh was deposited in the beneficiaries’ bills as wages for the development of a drain, and Mukhopadhyay accumulated almost all of it with the aid of force.
TMC block president Nurul Islam stated that paying the beneficiaries who worked simplest for three to four days is a good initiative. “A segment of the media is trying to project it wrongly,” he stated.
BJP nation president Dilip Ghosh stated this is only a starting point. “In the approaching days, senior TMC ministers and leaders may also go back and cut money taken from the people,” he said.
Protests and demonstrations have rocked numerous parts of the country for the past week over the traumatic return of the “reduce cash” allegedly taken by using elected representatives of the ruling TMC from beneficiaries of government schemes.
On Tuesday, sit-in demonstrations were held in North 24 Parganas and Birbhum districts over the same call.
TMC leaders at the municipal and panchayat degrees have also been dealing with public ire in different districts, which include Cooch Behar, Jalpaiguri, Burdwan, Malda, Purulia, Nadia, West Midnapore, Bankura, and Kolkata.
Abdul Mannan, leader of the opposition in the country assembly, and Sujan Chakraborty, senior CPI(M) chief, had demanded that the state government immediately form an inquiry commission to inspect the difficulty.
The protests rocked the state after Chief Minister and TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee cautioned party leaders recently that those involved in taking cut cash from government schemes and other corrupt practices could be positioned in the back of the barBanerjee said atAt a meeting with TMC council said, “I no longer want to keep thieves in my birthday party. If I take movement, they may be a part of a few other parties. Some leaders claim a 25 percent fee for presenting housing grants to the negative. This ought to forestall right away. Return the cash if any of you’ve got taken it.”In the wake of the protests, the TMC management Sunday accused the media of misreporting the interaction between Banerjee and the birthday celebration leaders, saying, “Ninety-nine. Ninety percent” of party functionarhashave are difficult-running and dedicated to paintings for the people’s advantage.
In an assertion on Wednesday, Banerjee named the Left and Congress to build a joint front against the BJP in Bengal. Banerjee stated at the meeting, “I even have apprehensions that the BJP would change the Constitution of India. Everyone, including the Left and Congress, must join arms to fight the BJP.”
This is the first time the Chief Minister has brazenly sought to join arms with her once-arch competitors to defeat the bigger enemy domestically.
In a terse response to Banerjee’s overtures, senior CPM chief and former MP Mohd Salim stated that the TMC had misplaced the moral right to call for a collective fight.
“We can’t say approximately the Congress, but CPI(M) is beneath no compulsion of saving @MamataOfficial’s career. She has misplaced the moral right to give this call to combat the BJP in Bengal. The TMC does now not have any credibility to fight fascism.”
The Trinamool Congress has been plagued using desertions in its ranks after the BJP ratcheted up its attack at the ruling birthday party to submit its victory in 18 Lok Sabha seats in the just concluded widespread elections.
