Bengal Speaker rejects BJP’s adjournment motion on ‘religious intolerance’; LOP proposes ‘working together’ on PMAY scheme

The BJP claimed that successful West Bengal, owed to the “continuous blockades” by a peculiar community, Hindus are “unable to bash their spiritual practices”, which violates Constitutional rights. After the Speaker rejected the motion, BJP MLAs started protesting and walked retired of the Assembly.

Adhikari said, “In presumption of percentage, we person got the astir votes from the Hindu assemblage and people. If we can’t springiness them information successful practicing their religion, if we can’t talk for them successful the Assembly, past what is the worth of us?” He added, “Not conscionable Hindus, according to the Constitution, immoderate assemblage has the close to signifier religion with freedom.”

On Friday, the Leader of Opposition besides brought up the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojna (PMAY) scheme. “The authorities authorities failed to springiness the utilisation certificate of the scheme. They person besides not identified who fraudulently grabbed the PMAY scheme’s money. You are present saying the authorities authorities volition springiness houses to much than 11 lakh families but if you rectify yourself, we volition unitedly speech with the cardinal authorities and tin put houses for much than 20 lakh mediocre families.”

The strategy has been successful the midst of a tussle betwixt the authorities and the Centre. In December 2020, acting connected complaints of irregularities, the Centre decided to withhold the backing for the 2017-2018 authorities database of beneficiaries – nether the PMAY-G scheme, the Centre allocates 60 percent of the funds, portion states lend the remaining 40 percent.

In July this year, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee announced that the strategy would proceed nether a caller name, Bangla Awas Yojana, and that the authorities would money it wholly connected its own.