By IANS,
Mothabari (West Bengal) : Asserting that the Congress-Trinamool alliance will work for the poor and backward sections of West Bengal if voted to power, Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi Thursday slammed the Left Front government for failing to utilise substantial funds allocated by the central government.Being a member of the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) is the sole criterion for getting a job in the state, he added.
“The money the Delhi government (central government) is sending is the highest ever sent to Bengal. This money is being sent for various developmental projects, roads, education – for all programmes. But you don’t get the benefit of this money and this developmental works because these programmes are not being run well,” Rahul Ganhi said.
“Near about 13,000 crore rupees have been sent to Bengal but these are not used properly,” said Gandhi while addressing a mammoth rally election rally in north Bengal’s Malda district.
“There is so much unemployment in this state. There are two criteria for the youths of Bengal to get an employment. One, you go out of this state or go out of country to get an employment. And the other criterion is that you have to be a member of the CPI-M to get a job. The CPI-M party only talks about ideology, communism but has done nothing good for the state in past 34 years,” he said.
Gandhi said that the Congress and Trinamool alliance will come to power in the state in the upcoming assembly elections, bring good governance and will eradicate poverty of the state.
“The Congress and Trinamool government (alliance) will try its best to take the state forward. It will work for the poor and the backward sections of the state,” he said.