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Trinamool protest a ploy to distract attention from its scams: Union Minister

Trinamool Anurag Thakur PMAY UPA West Bengal New Delhi NDA the Trinamool Congress the Union Government

Union Minister Anurag Thakur on Monday dismissed the protests by the Trinamool Congress in New Delhi as a ploy to distract attention from its scams. The Trinamool has alleged that West Bengal was being denied funds for centrally sponsored schemes.

“Coal scam, Sharada scam, teachers’ recruitment scam, Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana scam (PMAY), Rose Valley scam, cattle smuggling scam. The scams under the Trinamool Congress in West Bengal have come before us one by one. Today, on October 2nd (Gandhi Jayanti), a corrupt MP, who is faced with serious allegations himself, has carted some of his own MPs in flights to Delhi to distract attention from his own scams,” Mr. Thakur said at a press conference at the BJP’s national headquarters in New Delhi.

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