Fact-check of Narendra Modi’s speech at Jalpaiguri
WHAT Narendra Modi SAID
North Bengal has been neglected
TRUTH
North Bengal Development Department constituted in 2011. Branch of State Secretariat – Uttarkanya set up in Jalpaiguri. All 361 ongoing projects schemes funded by Uttar Banga Unnayan Parshad completed. Nine new Govt colleges, Tourism Hub, Rs. 10 Crores for high end equipments for District Hospitals in North Bengal
WHAT Narendra Modi SAID
A circuit bench of Calcutta HC has been inaugurated today. TMC Govt did not do anything for so many years
TRUTH
Bengal Govt spent Rs 300 crore for the Circuit Bench at Jalpaiguri, the land is also ours. It was ready four months back, but the Centre didn’t give us a notification to inaugurate it. Modi waited till just before elections for political mileage
WHAT Narendra Modi SAID
Tea gardens neglected, our government reopened closed tea gardens
TRUTH
Centre was supposed to take over seven closed tea gardens in 2016 but didn’t do anything. Bengal Govt has brought all people living in tea gardens under Khadya Sathi scheme, giving them old-age pension. Full exemption from payment of Education Cess and Rural Employment Cess
WHAT Narendra Modi SAID
Law and order of north Bengal is worsening
TRUTH
North Bengal has remained peaceful without any major incidents of violence. BJP tried to foment trouble in 2017 by siding with radical fringe elements and inciting them. But the people of North Bengal rejected their divisive politics and Mamata Banerjee held peaceful talks with all the parties concerned and returned things to normal. BJP has allied with separatist parties in the past - KPP, GCPA
WHAT Narendra Modi SAID
Irrigation is in bad condition
TRUTH
11 river embankment protection works completed in Jalpaiguri District alone, 13 in Coochbehar, 7 in Darjeeling. Improvement of drainage capacity of Gadadhar Channel, Jalpaiguri
WHAT Narendra Modi SAID
The youth of Bengal are not getting jobs
TRUTH
Two crore jobs were lost in India but in Bengal we decreased unemployment by 40%. The MoUs signed in the recently concluded BGBS will further create another 10 lakh jobs
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