Alleging that there has been no development in Tripura during the prolonged CPI(M)-rule, she said, "Manik babu (Tripura CM Manik Sarkar) did you set up a single hospital here in last 23 years? You get 90 per cent central assistance. We set up 41 super speciality hospitals in Bengal in the last five years. What has the CPI-M done here?"
She claimed the people of Tripura go to West Bengal and elsewhere for treatment because "they don't get it here".
Banerjee said a people's government was formed in West Bengal after ousting the Left Front and another people's government would also come in Tripura.
"People have to come forward braving all fears," she said addressing her first meeting here organised by TMC's state unit.
"Time has come for CPI-M to leave the throne of power. Entire Bengal would be with you in your struggle to oust them (CPI-M) from power. We must oust this corrupt government in the 2018 elections," she said.
The TMC supremo raised the issue of "huge loan" taken by the previous Left Front government in West Bengal and said, "They had left a huge debt burden and we turned into a pauper by repaying that debt".
Banerjee alleged that a huge number of people are unemployed in Tripura, students are not getting proper education, health care for common people is in a shmables and price haver skyrocketed due to "bad governance".
Banerjee said CPI-M was boasting it had brought rail up
to Agartala but "the project was sanctioned when I was the union Minister for railways in 2010."
She said despite the huge debt burden in Bengal "we are distributing rice at Rs 2 per kg, giving stipends to girls and students, creating livelihood for the poor.
Banerjee said the day Sudip Roy Burman, the erstwhile leader of Opposition in Tripura, and some of his colleagues decided to quit Congress protesting against the party's alliance with CPI-M in West Bengal, it started paving the way for the ouster of CPI-M from the N-E state.
Roy Burman along with five other Congress MLAs had joined TMC after the Bengal Assembly polls and it became the main Opposition in Tripura.
West Bengal ministers Firhad Hakim and Arup Biswas, MP Mukul Roy, and Tripura TMC leader Sudip Roy Burman also spoke at the rally.
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