{"id":235752,"date":"2024-02-28T00:06:16","date_gmt":"2024-02-27T18:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=235752"},"modified":"2024-02-28T00:06:16","modified_gmt":"2024-02-27T18:36:16","slug":"tmc-depriving-poor-of-central-schemes-for-sake-of-politics-sitharaman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2024\/02\/28\/tmc-depriving-poor-of-central-schemes-for-sake-of-politics-sitharaman\/","title":{"rendered":"TMC depriving poor of central schemes for sake of politics: Sitharaman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Kolkata, Feb 27 (PTI) Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Tuesday alleged that the ruling TMC in Bengal was depriving the poor of benefits of central government schemes for the \u201csake of politics\u201d.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">She also claimed that issues like \u201cpoor law and order situation\u201d and \u201ccorruption\u201d are making the state stand out under the Trinamool Congress rule.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Accusing successive state governments in West Bengal of \u201ceconomic mismanagement\u201d, Sitharaman said the culture of syndicated crime and extortion has become synonymous with the state.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cIt is corruption, poor law and order and extortion that are making the state stand out under the TMC rule,\u201d the minister said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Speaking on the TMC\u2019s allegations of the Union government withholding MGNREGA dues of Bengal, she wondered how could the Centre release the funds \u201cwhen there are 25 lakh fake job card holders\u201d.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cIt is public money, not private property,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Asserting that the BJP-led central government was working towards making \u201ceastern India the growth engine of the country\u201d, Sitharaman said many Union government schemes have to be \u201crigorously implemented\u201d so that farmers and fishermen benefit from those.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cWhy are you (TMC) denying something to the common people for the sake of politics? Why are you denying Ayushman Bharat to the poor?\u201d she said, addressing a programme organised by \u2018Khola Hawa\u2019, a cultural group linked to the BJP. PTI<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kolkata, Feb 27 (PTI) Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Tuesday alleged that the ruling TMC in Bengal was depriving the poor of benefits of central government schemes for the \u201csake of politics\u201d. She also claimed that issues like \u201cpoor law and order situation\u201d and \u201ccorruption\u201d are making the state stand out under the Trinamool [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-235752","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-national"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235752\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}