TMC rages: Centre gets lion's share, WB nothing!
May 08, 2012  16:56

Pressing its demand for three-year moratorium for West Bengal on repayment of loans, key UPA ally Trinamool Congress today slammed the government on various policy issues including land acquisition, Right to Education and taxation.

 

Participating in the debate on Finance Bill in the Lok Sabha, Trinamool member Kalyan Banerjee asked the Centre to immediately consider the West Bengal government's demand for moratorium on loan repayment for the state on the lines of Punjab.

 

"Our leader Mamata Banerjee has been repeatedly requesting (the moratorium), please give it to us," the Trinamool member said passionately. "You (Centre) get the lion's share...states are facing financial problems...you take the benefit of taxes...you are not heeding to states facing problem. You are doing it at the cost of people coming from states," he said.

 

Referring to the Centre's decision to set up a committee to consider the state's demand, he said, it was stated a month back but "where is the result? Where is the effect?...there is no output".

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