TMC, BJP engaged in war of words over Mamata's new outreach program

Opposition BJP and the ruling Trinamool Congress in West Bengal on Saturday entered into another round of war of words over a new outreach programme Didir Suraksha Kavach announced by TMC chairperson Mamata BanerjeeAround 35 lakh party workers will visit around two crore households covering the states 10 crore population over the next two months to highlight the welfare schemes undertaken by the Mamata Banerjee governmentThe party workers would be called emissaries of the CM Didir Doot Banerjee is addressed by people as Didielder sisterAlso read Majority of Kashmiri Pandit employees have returned to work in Valley OfficialTaking a dig at the campaign of the state ahead of the panchayat elections BJP national vicepresident Dilip Ghosh told reporters TMC leaders will require the Suraksha Kavach protective shield of their chairperson as they have to explain their misdeeds of swindling money of central projects by depriving the peopleDelhis Doots are now reaching out everywhere to BDO offices and banks in different parts of state TMC leaders are shivering with the fear of CBI raids and central teams who are fanning out everywhere in state to find out how funds were used under Prime Minister Awas YojanaTwo Central teams are in West Bengal now for looking into allegations of irregularities in the allotment of houses under Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana PMAYEndorsing Ghosh Leader of Opposition Suvendu Adhikari tweeted Verification of eligible beneficiaries of old age and widow pension schemes under National Social Assistance Programme is going on in West Bengal Phony Didir Doots would mislead soon to be finalised lakhs of recipients by masquerading the National Pension Scheme as Didis giftThe crooks would most likely tell these people who visited the Duare Sarkar camps and applied for Old age and widow pension that West Bengal government has selected them as they had visited the camps and applied accordingly The fact that their benefactor is Central government would be concealedThe Duare Sarkar initiative is about providing doorstep delivery of various government schemesReplying to the jibe TMC Rajya Sabha MP Santanu Sen claimed people of the state are with TMC chairperson Mamata Banerjee who has ushered in several social welfare projects and outreach programmes to come to the aid of the massesThis has made the BJP jealous as they have become shaky about the slew of outreach drives initiated by the TMCrun government They are sure about their imminent defeat in the panchayat polls and hence making comments which make no sense Sen saidThe TMC will start the campaign from January 11Party workers will reach out to people across the state and ensure that everyone can avail of the welfare schemes of the state government TMC national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee had said on January 2This story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever