West Bengal Congress president Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury took a jab at Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee following her trip to Spain at a time when state is grappling with rising number of dengue cases.
"We had already warned the state government about the rampant spread of dengue during August-September. This is due to the ignorance of the government towards the common people. They can go to Spain but cannot understand the pain of people here," the Congress MP told reporters at a press meet in Murshidabad.
Chowdhury also slammed Mamata for staying at a luxurious hotel in Spain. "We have heard that the Chief Minister does not take her salary. She sustains herself from the sale of her books and from her paintings. How could you afford to stay at a hotel in Madrid that costs Rs 3 lakhs per day?" he asked, according to ANI.
Attacking the CM further, Chowdhury even went on to ask, "How much did you spend on this trip? Which industrialist have you brought here? Don't fool the people here."
"If 10 per cent of what you had spent in Biswa Bangla industrial meet would have come back, lakhs of those unemployed in Bengal would have got jobs. We want to know which Spanish companies want to invest in Bengal," ANI quoted the MP as saying.
Regarding Shantiniketan's inclusion in the UNESCO Intangible Heritage List, Chowdhury said, "Shantiniketan does not need any other certification. It stands in its own right... At first please see that there is a congenial environment to study in Shanti Niketan in the manner that Rabindranath intended. Every day there is fight between RSS and TMC ideologues."
-- with inputs from ANI
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