Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], May 29 (ANI): Amid the ongoing Lok Sabha elections in the country, TMC National General Secretary Abhishek Banerjee on Wedneday lashed out at the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) saying that the Centre must be taught a lesson for not disbursing funds to the state of West Bengal for the past 10 years.
“This election is not just to make Trinamool win, and, strengthen Mamata Banerjee but it is an election to teach a lesson to the government sitting in the centre for not giving funds to the state for 10 years,” said Banerjee.
He further accused the BJP of misusing the central agencies like the Enforcement Directorate (ED) and Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and said, “For five years, the BJP government has been doing the politics of revenge…ED CBI is being used.”
It is noteworthy that the Congress and the Left Front have a seat-sharing arrangement in the state under which the Left parties contest 30 seats and the Congress contests the remaining 12 seats.
In the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, the TMC took the lion’s share of the electoral spoils in the state, at 34, while the BJP had to be content with just 2 seats. The CPI(M) and the Congress won 2 and 4 seats, respectively.
However, in a poll stunner that few saw coming, the BJP turned the tables on the ruling TMC in the 2019 polls, winning 18 seats. The ruling party in the state saw its tally reduced to 22. The Congress fared a lowly third in the tally with just 2 seats while the Left Front was down to just a lone seat.
Voting in West Bengal was scheduled to happen in all seven phases of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. The counting of votes will be held on June 4. (ANI)
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