As Mamata visits Cong forts today,ally says futile exercise

While the CM will have meetings with officials of the districts to take stock of the progress in development projects in the districts,she will also address three public rallies at Krishnanagar,Malda and Murshidabad. The exercise,according to political circles,is also aimed at weaning voters away from the Congress on the eve of the panchayat polls in the state.

The Congress saw red in the whole exercise. “The government is spending a lot of money to collect crowds for the rallies. We have information that the government is diverting money from schemes like NREGS and using that to bring the crowds. A lot of money is being spent for the CM’s visit. It is so ridiculous. Does she think that she can cause an erosion in the votebank of the Congress. It will be all futile,’’ Adhir Choudhury,Congress MP from Baharampur,told The Indian Express.

Mausam Benazir Noor,MP from Malda North,said: “We don’t think the CM’s visit will make any good for the area. But in any case since she is coming,I have got nothing to say,’’ Noor told The Indian Express over the phone from New Delhi.