MNREGA funds: On Mamata dharna day, Left too will protest against Centre

“The Narendra Modi government is depriving the poor people of the state who get work under the MGNREGA scheme. There was no budgetary allocation in the Union Budget for West Bengal. If there were any irregularities in the accounts of the MGNREGA, then the guilty must be punished. But why is MGNREGA work coming to a standstill?” asked Basu.

On March 28, street corner meetings and rallies will be held across the state and the next day, a rally will be held from Ramlila Maidan to the Lenin statue at Esplanade in Kolkata. On March 30, the same programmes will be taken forward in the districts.

The Left’s programmes coincide with Mamata Banerjee’s two-day sit-in at Red Road beginning March 29.

Meanwhile, the BJP, too, has decided to hold protests in the city on March 29 and 30 against the corruption of the TMC leaders and the state government’s failure to provide dearness allowance to its employees.