Drop FRDI, probe PNB scam or face stir: Didi to Modi Govt

Mamata Banerjee on Thursday threatened to launch an intense movement if the Centre did not take back the Financial Resolution and Deposit Insurance Bill and launch a thorough probe into Rs 11,000 crore PNB scam.

Launching a scathing attack on “our Dilli Sarkar” a blistering Chief Minister told a large gathering at Jhargram how the Government up there in Delhi was “proposing to rob the common man off their savings through the draconian FRDI Bill.”

The “Bill now tabled in Parliament says that the depositors will have no right on their savings if the bank so desires,” Banerjee said, wondering how the banks would guarantee security of depositors’ money where bank fraud like the one that rocked the Punjab National Bank was taking with alarming regularity.

Banerjee said she had already written to the Centre on a previous occasion and “have dashed off a stronger letter today only demanding immediate withdrawal of this oppressive Bill. If they fail to do so in a bid to rob the poor to pay the rich then I will be forced to launch a massive movement throughout the country.”

FRDI could give further impetus to ponzi business and moneylenders she reminded. Incidentally Bengal had been the hotbed of chit fund business in which a dozen of her Ministers and MPs had been implicated, some even getting jail.

Attacking the Centre for allowing the public money to be polished off by the fraudsters she said “the Centre will have to find out the persons who were involved in the Rs 11,000 crore PNB fraud. We want to know who gave the money? Who took the money? And finally who benefited through this fraud? If a serious probe is not launched immediately then we will organise public opinion and start a massive movement.”

Unlike the Central Government which had ruined the country’s economy through demonetisation and GST her own Government had launched Bengal in a path of development Banerjee said listing how her Government had created 81 lakh jobs, had plans to distribute 70 lakh cycles creating transport revolution in villages apart from starting old age pension, launching of Rs 2-a-kg-rice scheme and construction of 23,000 km of village roads.

“Our Bengal is different from the BJP-ruled Maharashtra where 12,000 farmers have committed suicide because of the anti-farmer policy of that Government,” Banerjee said reminding how 90 percent of her subjects received Government service some way or the other.