NEW DELHI: After allegedly being stopped halfway in her speech at Niti Aayog assembly, West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday upped the ante in opposition to Central authorities, accusing it of discriminatory practices in allocating time to opposition representatives in a deliberate try and malign them.
In the meantime, Niti Aayog CEO BVR Subrahmanyam dismissed Mamata’s declare and clarified that every chief minister was given a delegated talking time, which was displayed on screens at their tables, and that the time allotted to the West Bengal CM had ended.
“The chief minister of West Bengal requested to be given a flip earlier than lunchtime. I am simply placing details on the bottom, no interpretations. It was a transparent request from their facet as a result of usually we might have gone alphabetically, beginning with Andhra Pradesh, then Arunachal Pradesh. We adjusted, and the defence minister referred to as her in simply earlier than Gujarat. So, she made her assertion,” he stated.
“Each chief minister is allotted seven minutes, and there is a clock on high of the display screen that reveals the remaining time. It goes from seven to 6 to 5 to 4 to 3. On the finish, it reveals zero. Nothing else occurred. Then she stated she would have favored to talk for extra time however selected to not. That was it. All of us heard her factors respectfully, and they are going to be mirrored within the minutes. The Chief Secretary continued to attend the assembly even after she left to catch a flight to Calcutta,” Subrahmanyam added.
Centre additionally rebuffed her claims that the microphone was muted in the course of the ninth Governing Council Assembly of Niti Aayog and referred to as it “deceptive.”
“The clock solely confirmed that her talking time was over. Even the bell was not rung to mark it,” the Centre stated.
Upon returning to Kolkata after staging a walkout from the Niti Aayog assembly, Mamata stated, “I used to be the one consultant from opposition-ruled states current. They need to have given me half-hour. At the start of the assembly, Rajnath Singh stated that everybody ought to current their views in 5-7 minutes, however I wasn’t even given 7 minutes to talk.”
“Their representatives got 20 minutes and acquired particular packages and privileges, whereas others acquired zero minutes. I did the precise factor by boycotting the assembly. I cannot permit them to insult Bengal. I stand strongly with the opposition events operating governments in different states,” she added.
“I do not thoughts in the event that they allocate extra funds to some states. I advised them that the Centre solely provides directions, and it’s the job of the states to hold out the work on the bottom. You solely gave directions in the course of the COVID-19 disaster, and it was the states that dealt with all the things. I knowledgeable them that they’ve withheld Rs 1.72 lakh crore of our funds, and this quantity is just going to extend this yr,” the West Bengal CM additional stated.
This comes after Mamata alleged that her microphone was minimize off after 5 minutes, whereas different chief ministers from NDA-ruled states had been allowed to talk for longer durations.
“That is insulting. I cannot attend any additional conferences,” the Trinamool Congress (TMC) supremo stated.
“I walked out of the assembly. (Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister) Chandrababu Naidu was given 20 minutes to talk, and the chief ministers of Assam, Goa, and Chhattisgarh spoke for 10-12 minutes. I used to be stopped from talking after simply 5 minutes,” Mamata Banerjee stated after leaving the assembly of chief ministers chaired by PM Narendra Modi.
“That is unfair. From the opposition facet, I used to be the one one representing right here. I attended this assembly with a higher curiosity in strengthening cooperative federalism,” she added.
In the meantime, Niti Aayog CEO BVR Subrahmanyam dismissed Mamata’s declare and clarified that every chief minister was given a delegated talking time, which was displayed on screens at their tables, and that the time allotted to the West Bengal CM had ended.
“The chief minister of West Bengal requested to be given a flip earlier than lunchtime. I am simply placing details on the bottom, no interpretations. It was a transparent request from their facet as a result of usually we might have gone alphabetically, beginning with Andhra Pradesh, then Arunachal Pradesh. We adjusted, and the defence minister referred to as her in simply earlier than Gujarat. So, she made her assertion,” he stated.
“Each chief minister is allotted seven minutes, and there is a clock on high of the display screen that reveals the remaining time. It goes from seven to 6 to 5 to 4 to 3. On the finish, it reveals zero. Nothing else occurred. Then she stated she would have favored to talk for extra time however selected to not. That was it. All of us heard her factors respectfully, and they are going to be mirrored within the minutes. The Chief Secretary continued to attend the assembly even after she left to catch a flight to Calcutta,” Subrahmanyam added.
Centre additionally rebuffed her claims that the microphone was muted in the course of the ninth Governing Council Assembly of Niti Aayog and referred to as it “deceptive.”
“The clock solely confirmed that her talking time was over. Even the bell was not rung to mark it,” the Centre stated.
Upon returning to Kolkata after staging a walkout from the Niti Aayog assembly, Mamata stated, “I used to be the one consultant from opposition-ruled states current. They need to have given me half-hour. At the start of the assembly, Rajnath Singh stated that everybody ought to current their views in 5-7 minutes, however I wasn’t even given 7 minutes to talk.”
“Their representatives got 20 minutes and acquired particular packages and privileges, whereas others acquired zero minutes. I did the precise factor by boycotting the assembly. I cannot permit them to insult Bengal. I stand strongly with the opposition events operating governments in different states,” she added.
“I do not thoughts in the event that they allocate extra funds to some states. I advised them that the Centre solely provides directions, and it’s the job of the states to hold out the work on the bottom. You solely gave directions in the course of the COVID-19 disaster, and it was the states that dealt with all the things. I knowledgeable them that they’ve withheld Rs 1.72 lakh crore of our funds, and this quantity is just going to extend this yr,” the West Bengal CM additional stated.
This comes after Mamata alleged that her microphone was minimize off after 5 minutes, whereas different chief ministers from NDA-ruled states had been allowed to talk for longer durations.
“That is insulting. I cannot attend any additional conferences,” the Trinamool Congress (TMC) supremo stated.
“I walked out of the assembly. (Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister) Chandrababu Naidu was given 20 minutes to talk, and the chief ministers of Assam, Goa, and Chhattisgarh spoke for 10-12 minutes. I used to be stopped from talking after simply 5 minutes,” Mamata Banerjee stated after leaving the assembly of chief ministers chaired by PM Narendra Modi.
“That is unfair. From the opposition facet, I used to be the one one representing right here. I attended this assembly with a higher curiosity in strengthening cooperative federalism,” she added.
