SILIGURI: Tearing into the Mamata Banerjee authorities in West Bengal, Union Minister Smriti Irani on Sunday accused it of not fulfilling its guarantees to the tea backyard employees of the state, saying that although the state appears to have sufficient in its coffers in relation to elevating the month-to-month salaries of MLAs it does not have sufficient to pay the tea backyard employees their “hard-earned cash”.
Launching a scathing assault on the West Bengal chief minister on a go to to Siliguri district on Sunday, the Union Minister mentioned, “It is unlucky that Mamata Banerjee raises the salaries of the MLAs however doesn’t have sufficient within the coffers to pay the tea backyard employees their hard-earned cash.” “The tea backyard employees have launched a motion to rightfully declare their due. For years, the Trinamool authorities duped the tea employees with false guarantees — be it rising the each day wage for his or her expert labour, promising to construct homes for them or giving them land deeds,” Irani instructed reporters.
At Siliguri at the moment, attended @BJP4Bengal ‘s outreach program for tea backyard employees. For years they’ve been denied correct wages , good residing circumstances – victims of false guarantees made by the TMC Govt. The BJP has resolved that the rights & calls for of tea backyard employees shall… pic.twitter.com/8WPdPRvzUC
— Smriti Z Irani (@smritiirani) October 1, 2023
The Union minister claimed additional that the tea employees have been even being denied their Provident Fund cash. “Roughly 80 FIRs have been filed from the realm for the reason that administration (of tea estates) stopped giving PF cash to the tea backyard employees,” she mentioned, including, “The TMC has left each part of the society disillusioned and upset. The approaching collectively of all tea backyard employees to say their dues represents a problem for the TMC authorities going ahead,” Irani added.
Talking on the ‘Shram Daan’ occasion in Siliguri as a part of the ‘Swachhata Abhiyaan’ marketing campaign being noticed throughout the nation, the Union Minister additionally took a dig on the TMC over its scheduled protest towards the Centre within the nationwide capital, over the alleged denial of funds for paying wages of MGNREGA employees, saying that the one purpose why the leaders of the ruling celebration have landed in Delhi is as a result of their “cut-money” provide has been stopped.
“They’ve landed in Delhi as their minimize cash provide has been stopped. They’ve turned a blind eye to the plight of Bengal tea backyard employees,” she added. On the TMC allying with the Congress within the INDIA bloc to tackle the BJP on the Centre, Irani mentioned, “They partnered with the Congress earlier than, through the UPA years, however it did not end in any tangible improvement in Bengal. Her celebration is in energy now however nothing has modified on the bottom within the state. Neither does she work for improvement nor does her celebration ally with the progressive Narendra Modi authorities within the curiosity of public welfare and well-being.”
Weighing in on the alleged housing ‘rip-off’ in West Bengal, the Union Minister mentioned, “We must always take a look at the cash being unearthed by the businesses from the home that TMC constructed for itself. Why are the poor in West Bengal not getting correct homes constructed below a authorities devoted to the service of Maa, Mati, Manush (Bengal and its folks)? Why are they not talking in regards to the scams within the (PM) Awas Yojana?”
