Trinamool Congress leader Abhishek Banerjee extends financial aid to affected MGNREGA workers
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TMC leader Abhishek Banerjee is extending financial aid to around 3,000 MGNREGA job card holders in West Bengal deprived of their dues
Trinamool Congress leader Abhishek Banerjee is extending financial aid to around 3,000 Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) job card holders in West Bengal deprived of their dues, party sources said on Monday.
Mr. Banerjee has started sending letters to the MGNREGA workers who participated in Trinamool’s protest at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi in October.
BJP leader Dilip Ghosh dubbed the financial aid as a "bribe" before the 2024 Lok Sabha election.
"Abhishek Banerjee had promised during the agitation by Trinamool Congress in New Delhi in early October that if in two months the Centre did not clear the dues, he will make sure that the job card holders are assisted by the party. Since Sunday evening, he has been sending out letters and providing financial assistance," the party stated.
In the letters addressed to the affected workers, Mr. Banerjee, the Diamond Harbour MP, expressed his empathy and said that a larger protest than the previous one will be launched in the coming days. "Approximately, 3,000 will be sent [the aid]. But we are not disclosing the remuneration," he added.
In October, Mr. Banerjee along with Trinamool MLAs, MPs, ministers and MGNREGA workers protested at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi. The protestors had claimed that when they went to meet Union Minister of State for Rural Development Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti at Krishi Bhawan, she declined after making them wait for about an hour and a half.
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