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SME Times News Bureau | 11 Apr, 2020
Taking her battle with the state BJP to the Prime Minister's door, West
Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday requested Narendra
Modi to ensure that Union ministers and other leaders maintained
courtesy and desisted from making loose comments about her govenrments
fight against the Covid-19 pandemic.
Banerjee's complain to the
Prime Minister came on a day when a high-level state BJP delegation met
Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar and sought his intervention accusing
the administration of suppressing facts about the epidemic and carrying
out very low number of tests.
"We are fully cooperating with the
centre. Union ministers should also maintain courtesy and desist from
making loose comments. Nobody should play dirty games. I said let us
work together. This is not the time for politics," Banerjee told
mediapersons at the state secretariat Nabanna.
On Friday, Union
minister Babul Supriyo had accused the Banerjee-led administration of
suppressing facts. Earlier in the day, a five-member state BJP
delegation led by its chief Dilip Gosh raised issues regarding the
Covid-19 scenario with Dhankhar.
"The delegation indicated that
the testing in the state was very low, and about 5000 testing kits have
not even being distributed. Wherever testing kits have been sent they
are hardly been used.
"The delegation indicated that at Malda,
1,000 testing kits were supplied but there has not been a single test.
The situation elsewhere is similarly worrisome," a Raj Bhavan media
release said.
The delegation alleged that the Banerjee government was suppressing real time information.
"The
confidence of the people in government data is not there at all. It
(the delegation) urged the Governor to take steps to ensure that the
data is accurate and available to people and media without delay," the
Raj Bhavan said.
"The delegation expressed serious concern over
doctors and nurses in the hospitals being quarantined one after another.
This is on account of poor personal protection equipment (PPE)," it
added.
The delegation also submitted to the Governor a
representation of the All India Fair Price Shop Dealer's Federation
wherein "it was indicated that in various areas, councillors, panchayat
members and supporters were creating mental pressure on FPS dealers for
subscribing rice and wheat from their shops on the pretext of relief".
They
further urged the Governor to save the FPS dealers from undue and
illegal demands and also ensure their safety and security," it said.
The
BJP leaders also alleged complete opacity of the government with regard
to Tablighi Jamaat activists, which has resulted in "not all of them
being identified and quarantined".
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