Bengal hasn’t utilised central funds for health, says BJP national spokesperson Sambit Patra

“The National Health Mission provided a fund of Rs 150 crore to the state for super-specialty hospital upgrade. Where is the proper utilisation of that money?” he asked. Criticising Mamata for her stand on the Narada tapes case, he said, “Mamata is only busy doing politics rather than focusing on development. She should be referred to as ‘Narada didi’ for her stand in the ongoing case.”

In 2016, Mamata, in a letter to Modi, had claimed “sharp changes in the pattern of funding” and “withdrawal of central funding” disabled Bengal from “implementing people friendly project(s)”. This, she wrote, went against the very spirit of “cooperative federalism.”