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KOLKATA: Trinamool Congress’ war-cry in opposition to Union House Minister Amit Shah’s fresh remark on changing English with Hindi as the rustic’s reliable language at a gathering of Parliament’s Authentic Language Committee is not anything however an extension of the continued battle-points that Mamata Banerjee and her birthday party have raised in opposition to the Narendra Modi-led Union authorities.
In step with political observers within the state, this can be a incontrovertible fact that Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee needs to play a task on the nationwide degree within the 2024 Lok Sabha elections and to do this she must open more than one battle-fronts in opposition to the Union authorities.
“She is already combating quite a few battles with the Union authorities on problems relating to West Bengal, the place she has already claimed that the present Central authorities is stunting the rustic’s federal polity. Then again, her birthday party’s resistance to the problem of Hindi-imposition has a countrywide perspective the place her resistance can simply to find make stronger from the politicians of different non-Hindi talking states, stated political observer and analyst, Nirmalya Banerjee.
Now allow us to take a look on the different battle-fronts that the manager minister has opened in opposition to the Union authorities.
Central company probe spat: Chit finances, Narada bribery video rip-off, farm animals and coal smuggling, West Bengal College Provider Fee (WBSSC) recruitment irregularities, Jhalda Congress chief homicide and minor rape at Hanskhali — there are one of the burning problems in West Bengal by which central businesses just like the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and Enforcement Directorate (ED) are carrying out probes.
Within the Narada video rip-off, heavyweight state ministers like Firhad Hakim and overdue Subrata Mukherjee had been even arrested through the CBI. Even Mamata Banerjee’s nephew and the Trinamool Congress’ nationwide basic secretary, Avishek Banerjee needed to face central company grilling within the alleged coal smuggling. Mamata Banerjee had attempted to increase an opposition consensus in opposition to the Union authorities that the latter is intentionally the use of the central businesses in opposition to the distinguished opposition leaders.
West Bengal government-state Governor spat: Go-firing of salvos between West Bengal Leader Minister Mamata Banerjee and the state governor, Jagdeep Dhankhar on more than a few state problems is nearly a day-to-day affair. Quite a few heavyweight ministers of the state cupboard, together with the manager minister, have alleged that the Union authorities isn’t just looking to intrude into the affairs of the state authorities but additionally the state Meeting the use of the Governor, which fits in opposition to the federal construction of Indian democracy. The West Bengal Meeting Speaker Biman Banerjee has raised the problem quite a few instances within the all- India meetings of the other Meeting Speaker.
BSF’s jurisdiction extension factor: The Union house ministry’s determination to extend the world jurisdiction of Border Safety Power (BSF) to 50 kilometers from the state’s borders with Bangladesh and Pakistan were adversarial teeth and nail through Mamata Banerjee and her birthday party. In step with the manager minister, it is a clandestine strive through the Union authorities to present BSF a possibility to intrude within the jurisdiction of the state police within the Indo-Bangladesh bordering districts in West Bengal.
The hot killings of alleged cattle-smugglers in BSF firing on the Indo- Bangladesh bordering Cooch Behar district of West Bengal, a few of whom had been Indian electorate, have precipitated Trinamool Congress to sharpen its assault in opposition to the Union authorities in this rely. Two-time Trinamool Congress MLA from Dinhata Meeting constituency in Cooch Behar district, Udayan Guha even went to the level of alleging that male BSF team of workers molest girls within the borders of West Bengal underneath the pretext of frisking. The BSF government, on the other hand, have issued robust rejoinder in opposition to such allegations.
Dues in state’s proportion in GST: That is but every other factor that Mamata Banerjee is attempting to broaden a consensus a number of the non- BJP dominated states. On April 7, 2022, Leader Minister Mamata Banerjee instructed the media {that a} huge quantity of Rs 90,000 crore of GST dues is pending from the Centre. She additionally stated that she had talks with the manager ministers of different non-BJP dominated states they usually too have equivalent lawsuits about large unpaid Items & Products and services Tax (GST) dues.
MGNREGA dues: The West Bengal authorities has just lately issued a remark claiming {that a} huge quantity of Rs 2,876 crore is due from the Union authorities underneath the MGNREGA scheme. The state authorities has alleged that those dues are being intentionally being held again through the Union authorities.
