BJP to Hold Rallies Across Bengal to Highlight PDS Corruption

throughout an effort to draw attention to the Mamata Banerjee government's alleged corruption, the BJP has scheduled many rallies throughout Bengal, with a particular emphasis on possible anomalies in the public distribution system (PDS).

Over the next several weeks, the BJP intends to hold a number of anti-corruption campaign events around the state under the banner of Bijoya meetings. These gatherings would emphasize the arrest of Jyoti Priya Mallick, a senior cabinet colleague of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. At the time of the purported PDS anomalies, he served as the minister of food and supply.

According to a source, the BJP was organizing a wide range of grassroots political events, beginning at the gram panchayat level, to demonstrate how the Trinamul Congress's purported corruption model had an impact on the more than six crore people who rely on the PDS.

We want to have a massive protest event in Calcutta by the end of November that will bring together at least one lakh participants, many of whom rely on the PDS. District BJP leaders would meet in each gram panchayat before to the Calcutta rally, according to a top BJP official in Calcutta.

The BJP has been giving the PDS "scam" top priority because it believes the irregularities in the ration distribution system might have a bigger local effect and enable the party to gain more electoral benefits.

Since July of last year, three more party MLAs have been detained by central authorities like as the CBI and the Enforcement Directorate (ED), who are investigating a number of corruption cases against Trinamul officials.

MLA Palashipara Manik Bhattacharya was taken into custody in October 2022, while Burwan's representative, Jiban Krishna Saha, was detained in April. Partha Chatterjee, a minister at the time and MLA for Behala East, was detained in July of last year. In addition to serving as Trinamul's secretary general, Chatterjee was the minister of industry. The three of them were detained in relation to purported irregularities in staff appointments at educational institutions.

Anubrata Mondal, the strongman of Birbhum in Trinamul, was also detained in connection with a suspected cattle-rustling scheme.

"The three main foundations of every state are food supply, education, and health. According to Samik Bhattacharya, the chief spokesperson for the Bengal BJP, "this model of corruption in food supplies under the regime of Mamata Banerjee not only deprived crores of poor people of Bengal of the PDS but also cheated lakhs of farmers who failed to sell their paddy at the minimum support price."

As to an internal report from the BJP, the party was hoping that additional government officials and prominent figures involved in the PDS "scam" would come out shortly.

The Trinamul leadership said that because PDS recipients had not filed a complaint, the BJP's attempt to use corruption as a wedge between the state government and the people will fail.

"Not a single grievance or accusation has been made by a recipient. No reports of public unrest about ration distribution have come from anywhere in the state. This is as a result of individuals receiving free food at their door, according to Kunal Ghosh, general secretary of Trinamul state.

The people of Bengal are aware that the BJP is trying to damage our party's and our government's reputation, as shown by the arrest of our former food minister and the alleged PDS fraud. He said, "This politics of vendetta and misuse of central agencies would never work for the BJP."