Fact-check of Narendra Modi’s speech at Jalpaiguri


WHAT Narendra Modi SAID

North Bengal has been neglected

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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

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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

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WHAT Narendra Modi SAID

Tea gardens neglected, our government reopened closed tea gardens

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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

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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

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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

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WHAT Narendra Modi SAID

The youth of Bengal are not getting jobs

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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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