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After Mantra Challenge, Mamata Banerjee challenges Modi to an open debate

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Trinamool Chairperson Mamata Banerjee today kicked-off her campaign for the Lok Sabha elections, by addressing a public meeting organised by N. Chandrababu Naidu at Visakhapatnam.

In her speech, she challenged the Prime Minister to an open debate. Slamming Narendra Modi for not addressing a single press conference in the last five years, she said, in the open debate they will pose questions to each other and there would be no teleprompters.

Highlights of her speech:

  • This election is significant. You must vote wisely. We have to fight for the country
  • It is unfortunate that Narendra Modi has become the Prime Minister. He and his party president are targeting and intimidating all Opposition leaders
  • In the previous election, they won people’s trust on the plank of ‘chaiwallah’. Now they have become ‘chowkidar’
  • They are not people’s chowkidar. They are chowkidar of demonetisation, chowkidar of loot and chowkidar of lies
  • So many jawans have lost their lives. Terrorism has increased in his tenure. Farmers are committing suicide. Unemployment is at 45 year high
  • The PM has not addressed a single press conference in the last five years. They are afraid to face the media
  • Even while giving speeches, the PM needs teleprompters. And he always tells lies
  • The leader of the country must be like Mahatma Gandhi, Maulana Azad, Ambedkar, Netaji, Rajendra Prasad and other stalwarts
  • He cannot even become block leader and he aspires to become the leader of the nation
  • BJP party headquarter resembles a shopping mall
  • After the Pulwama attack, why did the PM not address any all-party meeting?
  • The country is burning. They are killing people in the name of gau-raksha
  • We do not want Modi because we do not want unemployment.
  • We do not want Modi because we do not want riots.
  • We do not want Modi because we want communal harmony
  • Who will become the Prime Minister, will be decided after the elections.
  • We serve the people 365 days a year
  • I challenge Modi to an open debate. I am ready to fight against him politically. Let him pose question for me, I will reply. I will ask him questions and he has to reply. There will be no teleprompters
  • Modi cannot come back to power with the help of select-few media channels
  • If we have to save the country, Modi must be defeated
  • They are not allowing State Governments to function.
  • They are destroying the Constitution. The independence of the institutions is under attack
  • If Modi and Amit Shah come back to power, the country will not remain the same anymore. We will lose all our freedom
  • We will work together to form a people’s government at Centre

 

Trinamool launches new campaign – #PradhanMantriHisabDo

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All India Trinamool Congress today started a new video series titled ‘Pradhan Mantri Hisab Do’ in the run up to Lok Sabha elections. The campaign began with a short film comparing two schemes – Bangla Government’s Sabooj Sathi and the Central Government’s Beti Bachao Beti Padhao.

The comparison video shows two stark pictures: There’s Priya Singh from Rewri, Haryana and Jhumur Mukherjee from Hooghly district. The former is exasperated at the utter ineffectiveness of the much-touted Beti Bachao Beti Padhao. She says that she loves to study but the nearest school is 14-15 km from her rural home. Hence she was forced to forego her studies. She says that on the one hand, the prime minister talks about educating girls and on the other hand, there’s not even one school in her village. There’s no count as to how many girls there are suffering her fate. She ends by asking the prime minister, “Have you kept any ‘hisab’ of this?”

Contrast this with the picture in Bangla. A housewife from rural Hooghly, Jhumur Mukherjee beams with joy as she explains how the bicycle her daughter got from Bangla Government as a result of the Sabooj Sathi Scheme, conceived by Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, is enabling her to attend school regularly, even though it’s quite a distance away.

The scheme has had significant success in enabling especially girls to attend school – by reducing travel time and ensuring safety. It is considered a landmark scheme in the country, having won numerous awards, the latest being declared a ‘Champion Project’ after becoming a finalist earlier this year at the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) Prizes, given by ITU, a United Nations organisation.

 

Bangla committed to labour welfare

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The Bangla Government, led by Mamata Banerjee, is committed to the welfare of labourers and workers in the State. Several schemes, such as Samajik Suraksha Yojana, have been launched.

Highlights of the Labour Welfare Department’s achievements

Samajik Suraksha Yojana

  • 5 social security schemes for unorganised labour merged into one scheme – Samajik Suraksha Yojana – for effective implementation (effective from April 1, 2017)
  • As of October 2018, 1.01 crore workers covered under the Samajik Mukti Card Scheme
  • Rs 1,274.29 crore disbursed as benefit to workersSpecial benefit for female students

The Labour Welfare Department introduced a first-of-its-kind benefit in India for female students for pursuing undergraduate course or equivalent skill development course, with the granting of benefit based on the condition of the girl remaining unmarried. This serves the twin goals of enabling higher education for girls and preventing their early marriage.

Medical benefits for unorganised sector workers

  • Medical benefits enhanced from Rs 10,000 to Rs. 20,000 per year
  • Medical benefits for surgery made uniform for all workers, at the rate of Rs 60,000 per year

Yuvashree Scheme & other payments

  • Govt has disbursed financial assistance of Rs 1,500 per month per person to 1 lakh jobseekers enrolled in the Employment Bank
  • Durga Puja and Eid ex-gratia payment made by the State Govt at the rate of Rs 1,000 per person per year
  • In financial year 2018-19, from April to October, 13,271 beneficiaries received a total of Rs 18.35 crore

 

Will never allow the country to be divided: Mamata Banerjee

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Trinamool Chairperson and Bangla Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today attended ‘Holi Milan’ celebration at Gitanjali Stadium, Kolkata. In her speech, she stressed on communal harmony harmony and vowed never to allow country to be divided.

Highlights of her speech:

People from all regions participate in all festivals in Bangla

Like the Holi Milan today, I also participate in Dandiya celebrations during Navratri, and also attend the festivals organised by the Jain and Buddhist community

In Bangla, we give holidays on the occasion of all religious festivals. This is because we respect all religions. We believe that all festivals are for everyone to celebrate

Never in my life have I treated people differently on the basis of religion

People from other States who live here are better off here than there native States because of the atmosphere of tolerance

We have never disallowed any festival in Bangla, be it Chhat Puja, Durga Puja, Kali Puja, Saraswati Puja, Lakshmi Puja, Ganapati Puja, Mahavir Jayanti, Guru Nanak’s birth anniversary celebrations or any other festival

People from the BJP come from outside come here and spread falsehoods

Hinduism is a great religion, whose tenets were defined by people like Swami Vivekananda, Sri Ramakrishna and others

At the Gangasagar Mela we make the best arrangements – in fact, people now say, “Har sagar ek bar, Gangasagar bar bar”

We have developed Gangasagar. Several amenities are available there now

Go visit places like Tarapith, Tarakeswar or Furfura Sharif or holy places of Christianity – peace reigns everywhere

The BJP just chants the name of Ram but don’t believe in him

We have respect for everybody – be it Ram or Rahim or Christianity

The BJP alleges that Mamata Banerjee does not allow pujas in Bangla. I challenge them to ask the people who live here. Every festival is celebrated in Bangla

People of different religious communities live together in Bangla like one big family

We will never let the country to be fragmented

We must have love and respect for everybody. We must live together

We never supported demonetisation – I had called it a disaster on the very first day

Industry, labourers, farmers, youth – everyone suffered due to demonetisation

People lost their hard-earned savings because of demonetisation. It was a huge tragedy

More than 2 crore people became unemployed due to demonetisation in one year – 2017-18. Whereas in Bangla, employment increased by 40%

We never make false promises. We always keep our word.

The prime minister believes in jumla. When he recently announced that he will address the nation, everyone was tense; what new disaster awaited us? Ultimately, it was a case of ‘empty vessel sounds much’.

The A-SAT missile is the result of the hard work of our scientists

Look at the BJP, every leader is becoming a chowkidar. We respect the real chowkidars

Religions stands for humanity. As long as I am alive, I will not allow Bangla to be divided. And the same goes for the country

Mamata Banerjee releases Trinamool’s manifesto for 2019 Lok Sabha elections

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Trinamool Chairperson Mamata Banerjee today released the party’s manifesto for the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.

While the manifesto is a statement of intent of the party, Mamata Banerjee maintained that all parties which will come together for the creation of United India, will draft a common minimum programme in the days to come.

This year’s manifesto has been published in Bangla, English, Hindi, Nepali, and Ol Chiki languages. It lays stress on every subject – from Darjeeling to Jangalmahal, farmers, labourers, women, backward classes, communal harmony among others.

From the demand for a judicial probe into demonetisation, to an expert review of GST, the demand for increasing 100 Days’ Work to 200 and a package for the farmers, or the demand for bringing back the Planning Commission – the manifesto covers a wide range of issues facing the nation.

Click here to read the English version of the manifesto.

Click here to read the Bengali version of the manifesto.

 

Bengal takes the leap in the holistic development of its industrial sector

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Since coming to power, the Trinamool Congress Government, inspired Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has laid great emphasis on the development of the industrial sector in the State.

Some of the major initiatives taken by the government to promote Bangla as an investment destination are:

Industrial parks

  • 14 industrial parks set up and operations begun
  • 10 industrial parks upgraded to international standards
  • Establishment of 23 industrial parks undertaken
  • In Howrah district, India’s largest hosiery park, and a foundry park and a state-of-the art gems and jewellery park set up
  • Asia’s largest leather complex in Bantala has welcomed industrialists from Kanpur and Chennai. This will lead to the generation of over 5 lakh jobs
  • 2,500-acre industrial centre being set up at Raghunathpur in Purulia district

Industrial Infrastructure:

  • Two ports being set up – Tajpur Sea Port and Kulpi River Port, both in Purba Medinipur
  • India’s first greenfield airport operating in Andal

Multinational and private investments

  • Haldia Petrochemicals revived with the help of State Government; as a result, revival of 2,500 downstream industries have led to the creation of 5 lakh jobs
  • JSW Group investing Rs 10,000 crore, being used for constructing cement plant in Salboni on 1,500 acres, thus creating employment for 15,000 people
  • Investment by renowned companies like Flipkart, Coca-Cola, Genpact, Cognizant, IBM, Reliance, Pepsi, Amul India, Mitsubishi, ITC, BASF (Germany) and many more

Gains from business summits

Bengal Global Business Summit

The five Bengal Global Business Summits (BGBS) received investments from many national and international industrialists

50 per cent of the above investment proposals already being implemented

Hill Business Summit

Bangla’s first Hill Business Summit organised successfully in March 2018. It generated investment proposals worth almost Rs 1,500 crore for the Hills and north Bengal.

Bengal’s exports

  • ‘Banglar Raftani’ mobile app launched to promote Bengal’s exports
  • State’s export earnings increased from USD 7.1 billion (2011) to USD 9.16 billion (2018)

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Bangla’s economy surging ahead

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Thanks to the tremendous efforts put in by the Trinamool Congress Government, Bangla has become one of the best-performing States with respect to economy.

Primary achievements of the State:

Gross state domestic product (GSDP): From Rs 4.74 crore in May 2011 to Rs 11.55 crore in FY 2019 (as per advanced estimates (AE))

GSDP growth: In terms of GSDP growth (AE), Bangla is no. 1

Industrial Growth: In FY 2018, State’s industrial growth was almost three times that of India’s – 16.29% (AE) against 5.54%

Revenue deposit: Revenue deposit as percentage of GSDP down from 3.75 in FY 2011 to 0.96 in FY 2018

Fiscal deposit: Fiscal deposit as percentage of GSDP down from 4.24 in FY 2011 to 2.83 in FY 2018

Tax revenue: More than 2.5 times increase, from Rs 21,128 crore in FY 2011 to Rs 57,700 crore in FY 2018

From 2011, state plan expenditure of Rs 3.45 lakh crore and capital expenditure of Rs 92,000 crore spent on creating infrastructural assets and social assets

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Bengal takes the lead in employment generation

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Over the last few years, Bangla has witnessed phenomenal growth under the leadership of Mamata Banerjee.

Here are the areas where Bangla has achieved immense success in terms of employment generation

1. Unemployment has reduced by 40%

2. Bengal ranks first in 100 Days’ Work with respect to man-day generation, where over 191 crore man-days have been generated

3. Significant increase in employment opportunities in all sectors where almost 1 crore people have become employed in 7.5 years

4. Under Utkarsha Bangla Scheme, almost 6 lakh youths receive skill training every year. The majority have also secured a job in their own profession

5. Yuvashree Scheme: Almost 1.70 lakh youths have received assistance under the Yuvashree Scheme
Under the Yuvashree 2 Arpan Scheme, 50,000 youths will be given financial assistance of Rs 1 lakh every year to start their own businesses

6. 528 Karmatirthas set up to create more employment opportunities

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State Govt promoting herbal colours for a safe Dol Jatra

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The State Food Processing and Horticulture Department is promoting the use and sale of herbal colours for Dol Jatra celebrations.

The herbal aabir, as the colours used in the festivities are called, are manufactured by a self-help group (SHG) and are being sold at Mayukh Bhavan in Salt Lake, which houses the Horticulture Department.

The counter will remain open till today (March 20). The price of the herbal colours has been fixed at Rs 30 per 100 grams.

The members of the SHG responsible for manufacturing the herbal colours have received training from Jadavpur University. The colours are extracted from flowers and mixed with talcum powder and arrowroot to manufacture the finished product, said the head of the SHG.

There are five varieties of aabir – green, orange, pink, yellow and violet, extracted from rose, marigold, palash, aparajita and balsam, respectively.

If the schemes for the poor not continued, then they will suffer: Mamata Banerjee

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Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee addressed the media at Nabanna today.

Here are the salient points that she said:

* Have instructed the chief secy to request EC to allow development programmes started before the poll dates were announced.

* Told to carry out relief work in storm affected areas. Permission sought to give relief to the families of deceased and severely affected
* If the schemes for the poor not continued, then they will suffer
* Among them are Khadya Sathi scheme, pension and health schemes, tea garden schemes
* These are public schemes and the people will suffer if they are discontinued for almost three months