The row over alleged denial of wages for the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) continued in West Bengal on Saturday with Union Minister of State for Rural Development Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti addressing a press conference here and Trinamool Congress leader Abhishek Banerjee continuing his sit-in outside the Raj Bhavan on the third consecutive day.
Addressing a press conference at the State party office, the Minister said the Centre had never deprived West Bengal of its MGNREGS dues, and called the Trinamool Congress protest in Delhi over the issue a tamasha (drama)’ .
The Minister said that she waited for nearly two-and-a-half hours to meet a Trinamool Congress delegation, but its leadership kept making different claims about the number of members of the delegation and insisted that she meet the “people (deprived of wages)” first.
