Opposition ruled States denying people benefit of Modi’s schemes: Dr Jitendra
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KOLKATA: Union Minister Dr. Jitendra Singh on Monday accused the opposition ruled States of denying people the benefit of Modi’s schemes.
He said, the most striking example of this is West Bengal where many people have not even heard of some of the public welfare schemes of the central government, which have otherwise gained enormous popularity across the country.
Speaking to media persons on the sidelines of a series of BJP election meetings in the Lok Sabha constituencies of Howrah and Hooghly, Dr. Jitendra recalled that even Prime Minister Narendra Modi had in the public rally at Howrah yesterday mentioned that Howrah was at one point of time known to be the hub of industry in India.
Dr. Jitendra said, people of West Bengal have now begun to realise how the decades-long rule first by CPM and then by TMC has thrown Bengal back for several years and brought entire development to a virtual halt. He recalled that once upon a time, the common adage was that what Bengal thinks today, India thinks tomorrow, which in other words means that Bengal was always ahead of the other States and other regions of the country. But unfortunately, it is the other way now, he regretted.
Taking a dig at the TMC Govt, Dr. Jitendra said, the TMC, the Congress and other opposition parties keep criticising the Modi government for unemployment but on the contrary the State governments run by these parties don’t allow the Modi government initiatives which would have led to generation of employment in large numbers as well as job creation.
Under the TMC rule and earlier during the CPM rule, Dr. Jitendra said, three generations of the Bengal youth have missed the opportunity which was available to the other States of the country.
In the last ten years of the Modi government, for example, a new Startup policy was initiated and the number of Startups in India went up from around 350 to 1 1?2 Lakh and India rose at number three globally in the StartUp ecosystem. But the benefit of this was not seen in equal measure in West Bengal in spite of the youth here being highly talented and awakened, he lamented.
