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Trinamool national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee said on Sunday that the government at the Centre has purposely stopped funds for the MGNREGA scheme and were trying to deprive the people of Bengal..
Banerjee slammed Union minister Giriraj Singh's "step-motherly attitude" towards people of the state even as Trinamool MLAs, state ministers and MPs, led by Banerjee, left for New Delhi to hold a two-day protest programme at Rajghat and Jantar Mantar on October 2 and 3...
Around 4,000 job card-holders under MGNREGA have already left for Delhi in 50-odd buses to participate in a protest rally..
The rally is being organised to demand release of wages due to workers under the 100-day rural job scheme and funds for other central schemes...
The central government, which is in power for more than nine and a half years, have stopped funds for MNREGA, PM Awas Yojana, rural road and all other central schemes," Banerjee said before leaving for Delhi...
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