On the event of Jana Sangh founder Syama Prasad Mookerjee’s 119th birth anniversary, BJP President J.P Nadda addressed a virtual rally in West Bengal, before visiting the BJP headquarters in Delhi to pay a floral tribute to the late founder.
Lauding Jana Sangh founder Syama Prasad Mookerjee for fighting for a united India, he blamed India’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru of practising “appeasement politics.”
Following this he launched a broadside against the TMC government in West Bengal, alleging criminalisation of politics and corruption have scaled new heights under it and called for its ouster. “We need to restore Bengals glory and remove this government lock, stock and barrel, Nadda told the virtual rally.
He also attacked the state’s Mamata Banerjee government over its handling of the COVID-19 crisis. “The West Bengal chief minister doesn’t believe in cooperative federalism. She is not keen on sharing COVID data with the Centre,” he alleged.
Earlier Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman had said that West Bengal could not be included in the Garib Kalyan Rojgar Yojana, the employment scheme for returnee migrant workers as it did not share the required data.