{"id":29538,"date":"2021-02-22T19:13:31","date_gmt":"2021-02-22T19:13:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/?p=29538"},"modified":"2021-02-22T19:13:38","modified_gmt":"2021-02-22T19:13:38","slug":"modi-attacks-mamata-over-cut-money-insulting-bengali-pride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/?p=29538","title":{"rendered":"Modi attacks Mamata over &#8220;cut money&#8221;, insulting Bengali pride"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Launching a frontal attack<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>on the Mamata Banerjee government, Prime Minister Narendra Modi alleged on Monday it has perpetuated &#8220;syndicate raj&#8221; in all spheres of life in West Bengal where no work gets done without common people having to pay &#8220;cut money&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He accused the TMC government of pursuing &#8220;appeasement politics&#8221; to protect its vote bank while neglecting its cultural heritage and icons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The state government&#8217;s cut money culture has vitiated the atmosphere to such an extent that you cannot even take a house on rent without paying it&#8230;.you cannot rent a house without the syndicate&#8217;s permission,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He attacked the Banerjee government for not allowing central schemes like the PM Kisan Samman Nidhi and Ayushman Bharat, depriving farmers and the poor of its benefits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I have been told the house where Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay conceived and wrote &#8216;Vande Mataram&#8217; is in an abysmal condition. The man who injected new life into the freedom struggle amid pervasive gloom of slavery&#8230;his house is a victim of neglect. It&#8217;s an insult to Bengali pride,&#8221; Modi said addressing a public rally here in Hooghly district.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He also accused the TMC government of neglecting industrial development, including the state&#8217;s once thriving jute industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>r&#8221;The people of West Bengal have made up their mind to usher in &#8216;asol poribartan&#8217; (real change). The BJP will give Bengal a government that will ensure development of all but appeasement of none,&#8221; he asserted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Repeatedly attacking the state government, Modi said, &#8220;Development of Bengal is not possible as long as cut money culture, tolabaji persists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Development of Bengal is not possible as long as the state administration patronises goondas, development of Bengal is not possible as long as the rule of law is not established.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Modi said once the BJP forms its government in Bengal, people will be able to preserve and protect their culture and nobody will be able to scare or suppress them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said there was no dearth of potential investors but the threat of the syndicate and cut money dissuaded them from investing in the state.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Launching a frontal attack on the Mamata Banerjee government, Prime Minister Narendra Modi alleged on Monday it has perpetuated &#8220;syndicate raj&#8221; in all spheres of life in West Bengal where no work gets done without common people having to pay &#8220;cut money&#8221;. 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