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WB CM seeks debt waiver from Prime Minister

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West Bengal Chief Minister Ms Mamata Banerjee today had a meeting with the Prime Minister at the Parliament House. The issues relating to the deplorable condition of West Bengal due to the debt burden left on the State by the earlier Government was discussed.

 

 

The Chief Minister shared the details of the meeting on her Facebook Page:  

“Today I met the Prime Minister with a 40-member delegation of our MPs.We discussed about the state of finances in West Bengal. We informed him how the huge debt burden left on us, as a legacy of the previous Government, has made West Bengal No.1 debt-stressed State in the country.

More than rupees 1 lakh Crore has been deducted by the Centre towards repayment of loan and payment of interest from the State exchequer over the last 3 years.

This huge fund could have been utilized for our development activities and serving the poor. We also shared with him our passing of FRBM Act and our efforts to double the revenue collection in the last three years, despite our huge debt overburden.

He appreciated our performance towards development of the State and maintenance of fiscal discipline.We urged the Prime Minister to waive the debts in the interest of further growth and development of West Bengal”, said the WB CM.

Why is the PM missing from the Rajya Sabha? – Derek O’Brien | Transcript

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Chief Whip of the party in the Rajya Sabha, Derek O’Brien today demanded that the Prime Minister must be present in the House during a debate on communal violence.

“Nine Opposition parties… 140 MPs speak in one voice… Where is His Master’s Voice? Where is the Prime Minister?” asked Derek in the Council of States.

Full transcript of his intervention:

Sir, I know this discussion has been moved by me; this is a very serious discussion. Sir. There are nine Opposition parties… 140 MPs speak in one voice… Where is His Master’s Voice? Where is the Prime Minister?

We can see selfies. Does he need a visa to come here? Do we need to issue a visa for him to come here? He must come to the House and participate in the debates. Why is he shying away?

Derek O’Brien speaks on the clarification by PM on missing coal files

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Sir, I am not sure whether this is actually 4.26 p.m. on Wednesday or whether it is 12.38 p.m. on Tuesday. Because the same five MPs had got up, including me, and asked the same seven questions. But I will add two questions to that.

The similarity between yesterday and today is that yesterday we got no answers.

So, I am wondering whether I should conserve energy and not ask the two questions because in any case I won’t get the answers. Same questions I asked yesterday. Hon. Prime Minister on the floor of this House said that ‘He is not the custodian of those files.’ Pray, may I ask very humbly then who is the custodian of those files? This simple question I asked yesterday. Two, whether files go missing or they are made to go missing, there is a timeline maintained of the files till they were not ’missing’, can he present the timeline of those files when they were in custody? These are the two questions.