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BJP workers blocked a road in West Bengal’s Hooghly district on Sunday demanding the removal of a BDO for alleged irregularities in the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana, while two central teams probed allegations of irregularities in the allotment of houses under the PMAY. Visited some places in the state for investigation.
Raising slogans of ‘chor chor TMC chor’, ‘BDO der hato’ (BDO go away), around 100 BJP workers gathered on the national highway at Dadpur in Hooghly district and blocked traffic. A district official said that on the intervention of the police, they left the spot after half an hour and no untoward incident took place.
A district BJP leader alleged that the names of owners of two-storey, three-storey buildings in Dadpur, Polba areas were included in the list prepared by the district administration for those eligible under PMAY, while the needy living in thatched houses were has been abandoned. out on the insistence of local TMC leaders.
TMC state spokesperson Kunal Ghosh said there will be a zero tolerance policy towards those involved in irregularities in the housing scheme, as asserted by the party’s national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee, BJP is trying to instigate people in the name of protest And creating nuisance before the panchayat. Election.
Reacting to the visits of central teams to East Medinipur and Malda districts over the past few days, Mr. Ghosh said, “We hope they will not work under the direction of BJP, then we will send them (members of the central team) to the migrant Will be forced to describe as.” Bird. If they work in favor of poor villagers, we have nothing to comment on. The three-member team was visiting different blocks of Kaliachak in Malda district and interacting with their houses to hear complaints by a section of local people that they were not allotted houses under the PMAY scheme despite applications.
Another team visited villages in Medinipur district before 5 January.
Leader of the Opposition in the West Bengal Legislative Assembly Shubhendu Adhikari said on Saturday that another central team would visit 15 districts of the state next week.
Addressing a public meeting at Chandipur in Purba Medinipur district, the official said, “They (central team) will visit every block, they will go door-to-door. They will audit and check expenses and identify wrongdoers. ”