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Mamata Banerjee (file photo)
KOLKATA: West Bengal is being “unnecessarily targeted” for its handling of Covid-19, Prime Minister Mamata Banerjee he said to the prime minister Narendra Modi on Monday, insisting he wants to fight the pandemic in conjunction with the Center, TMC sources said.
He also demanded that the Center formulate a “clear strategy” to combat the disease, sources from the state’s ruling party said.
Banerjee, who spoke during a teleconference that the Prime Minister had with the chief ministers days before the third phase across the country. emergency shutdown It ends, highlighting the “contradictions” in the Center’s approach to dealing with the outbreak.
“On the one hand, the Center wants the blockade to be strictly enforced and, on the other hand, it is resuming train services and reopening land borders,” sources quoted the meeting as presenting their views on whether the blockade were quoted as saying. should extend beyond May 17)
It was not immediately known whether he spoke in favor of lifting the blockade or extending it.
He suggested that states be allowed to decide which sectors to open and which to keep closed taking into account the situation on the ground.
We want to fight the pandemic together with the central government. But Bengal has been unnecessarily attacked politically. Rather than shifting responsibility to states, the Center should present a clear strategy on the way forward, he said at the meeting.
The prime minister also called on the center to release legitimate financial quotas to states.
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