 "UPA govt denying funds to West Bengal: Trinamool")
"The Centre should immediately consult Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and urgently release the funds due under various central schemes," the party's parliamentary leader Sudip Bandopadhyay said here.
Observing that Trinamool Congress had "inherited an already bankrupt" state, he said the funds under schemes like MGNREGA and Sarva Shiksha were due but not released to the state.
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Delivering a speech at a rally in Jalpaiguri yesterday, Banerjee had accused the Congress-led UPA government of denying funds while spending "so much money" for its advertisement campaign.
Accusing the Congress of deliberately depriving the state, she had said, "We will realise our right... We do not want any alms. We will not beg before the Centre.
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