West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Sunday targeted Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the nonpayment of West Bengal's MGNREGA dues, saying either release the funds or vacate the office.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said on Saturday that she has requested time to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi on MGNREGA (Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act) funds disbursal when she will be visiting Delhi from December 18 to 20.
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Bihar President Samrat Chaudhary on Friday said that West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee should have ordered a probe against Mahua Moitra but she did not.
On a day that the Lok Sabha expelled Trinamool Congress MP from Krishnanagar Mahua Moitra from the house, TMC chief and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee tore into the BJP.
"You don't tell us what is important or what is not. Your Ministry has stolen Rs 7000 crores of MGNREGA wages from the poorest of the poor," Moitra who is facing the heat of the 'cash for query' allegations said while speaking to ANI on Thursday.
Reacting to the Union Minister Giriraj Singh's 'Thumka' remarks for West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, TMP MP Mahua Moitra lashed out at BJP and called them 'Misogynists' adding that their party cannot digest the success of an independent woman in this country.
A meeting of the floor leaders of the INDIA bloc will be held today at 7 p.m. at Congress national president Mallikarjun Kharge's residence here in the national capital.
"I was not informed earlier. Only a day before yesterday, Rahul called me up and told me about the meeting...We will be meeting shortly whenever they will decide," Mamata Banerjee said.
Shiv Sena (UBT) MP Priyanka Chaturvedi ruled out reports of differences cropping up between various parties in the INDIA bloc after a meeting of party heads scheduled for November 5 was rescheduled to the third week of December.
MP Sanjay Raut on Wednesday said that the next meeting of the INDIA bloc can take place between December 16 and 18 and many things including the face of the alliance will be decided at that time.