West Bengal Meeting Speaker Biman Banerjee on Friday rejected the opposition’s adjournment movement on “non secular intolerance” on the grounds that it had “already been mentioned in the course of the Structure Day debate”.
On Friday morning, after a question-answer session of the Meeting, Chief of Opposition and BJP chief Suvendu Adhikari introduced an adjournment movement on “non secular intolerance”.
The BJP claimed that in West Bengal, because of the “steady blockades” by a specific neighborhood, Hindus are “unable to do their non secular practices”, which violates Constitutional rights. After the Speaker rejected the movement, BJP MLAs began protesting and walked out of the Meeting.
Adhikari mentioned, “When it comes to share, we’ve obtained probably the most votes from the Hindu neighborhood and other people. If we will’t give them safety in practising their faith, if we will’t converse for them within the Meeting, then what’s the worth of us?” He added, “Not simply Hindus, in keeping with the Structure, any neighborhood has the correct to apply faith with freedom.”
On Friday, the Chief of Opposition additionally introduced up the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojna (PMAY) scheme. “The state authorities failed to offer the utilisation certificates of the scheme. They’ve additionally not recognized who fraudulently grabbed the PMAY scheme’s cash. You at the moment are saying the state authorities will give homes to greater than 11 lakh households however if you happen to rectify your self, we’ll unitedly speak with the central authorities and might prepare homes for greater than 20 lakh poor households.”
The scheme has been within the midst of a tussle between the state and the Centre. In December 2020, performing on complaints of irregularities, the Centre determined to withhold the funding for the 2017-2018 state listing of beneficiaries – beneath the PMAY-G scheme, the Centre allocates 60 p.c of the funds, whereas states contribute the remaining 40 p.c.
In July this yr, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee introduced that the scheme would proceed beneath a brand new title, Bangla Awas Yojana, and that the state would fund it fully by itself.
