No Central funds if Bengal doesn’t paint health centres saffron: Mamata Banerjee

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The Centre has stopped funds for West Bengals medical schemes because it wants all health centres to be painted saffron, chief minister Mamata Banerjee alleged on Sunday before leaving for Delhi where she is scheduled to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi and demand the release of Central funds for various social welfare programmes.o)..

Reacting to Banerjees accusation, Bengal BJPs chief spokesperson Samik Bhattacharya said, If she sees BJP in the saffron colour then tomorrow she may make the same accusation against the Ramakrishna Mission and Bharat Sevashram Sangha..

TMC general secretary and Mamatas nephew, Abhishek Banerjee, with several other party leaders and workers, had in October staged a two-day protest in Delhi against the denial of Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) and housing scheme funds to the West Bengal government. ..

Although it has been found that Lalit Jha, one of the alleged conspirators, used to live in Kolkata with his family, Banerjee said Bengal has no link to the incident as alleged by BJP..

Addressing people in Siliguri on December 13, she said, The Centre has stopped funds for rural employment projects, village roads and health schemes..

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