BJP using Ram Mandir and religion to hide its failures: Abhishek Banerjee

TMC general secretary Abhishek Banerjee Wednesday accused the BJP government at the Centre of using religious sentiments, like the Ayodhya Ram Mandir to hide its failures to provide good governance in the last nine years.

He also blamed the Centre for trying to starve the state government of funds by withholding the MGNREGA funds to it.

"BJP wants to indulge in the politics of religion to hide its failures. Will politics over religion help it to satisfy the hunger of the poor people, who are reeling under the rise in the prices of essentials and cooking gas? The answer is no.

"Politics over religion and Ram Mandir is a ploy by BJP to divert attention from the failures of its government at the Centre, he said addressing a rally at Onda in Bankura.

The next panchayat and Lok Sabha polls in West Bengal will be held on the plank of the rights of the people of the state. BJP is trying to snatch away their rights. It has stopped releasing the MGNREGA funds for the state," he said.

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