Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Saturday claimed that as many as 6,900 companies operating in West Bengal had either shut down or shifted their bases to other states between 2011 and 2025, after the Trinamool Congress (TMC) came to power in the state.
“From 2011 to 2,025, a total of 6,900 companies in West Bengal were either closed down or their management shifted to other states. Out of these companies, 110 companies were listed on the share market. West Bengal once had quite impressive figures both in terms of gross state domestic product and per capita income, which have declined during the Trinamool Congress regime,” Shah said.
The Union Home Minister was addressing a mass rally-cum-workers’ conference of the BJP at Siliguri in Darjeeling district in north Bengal on Saturday afternoon.
This was Shah’s second rally in West Bengal on Saturday, the first being held earlier in the day at Barrackpore in North 24 Parganas district. HM Shah also drew a comparison between central funds allocated to West Bengal during the UPA regime (2004–2014) and the NDA government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi since 2014.
“During the previous UPA regime from 2004 to 2014, only Rs 2,00,000 crore of central funds were allotted for West Bengal. But during the NDA regime since 2014, the central fund allotment for West Bengal was as high as Rs 10 lakh crore. But where did this money vanish? All had gone to the corruption syndicates of the ruling Trinamool Congress. If the BJP comes to power in West Bengal, the heads of these syndicates will be behind bars,” the Union Home Minister said.
North Bengal Neglect And Infiltration Issue
Shah also accused the Mamata Banerjee-led government of neglecting development in North Bengal.
“The current regime had only viewed North Bengal as a duck laying golden eggs. If the BJP comes to power, the budgetary allocations for North Bengal would be much higher,” Shah said.
Reiterating the BJP’s stand on illegal infiltration, the Union Home Minister said, “If the BJP comes to power in West Bengal, not only will the new state government stop illegal infiltration, but it will also deport the existing illegal infiltrators to their countries one after another.”
“That is exactly why Mamata Banerjee and Trinamool Congress are so scared of the special intensive regime, since this exercise will be instrumental in identifying the illegal infiltrators,” Shah added.
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