Abhishek Banerjee, the general secretary of the TMC, claimed on Wednesday that the BJP administration at the centre has been hiding its lack of effective governance for the past nine years by using religious sentiments like those around the Ayodhya Ram Mandir.
The upcoming elections in the state, he added, will be fought on people-centric concerns and not on the narrative of religion and caste, accusing the federal government of trying to deprive the West Bengal government of funding by denying it MGNREGA funds. “BJP wants to engage in religious politics to cover up its shortcomings. Will politics take precedence over religion in sating the hunger of the underprivileged, who are suffering from the rise in the cost of necessities like cooking gas? No, is the response.
