BJP's 'Acche Din' means snatching people's money, defrauding banks : Mamata


Kolkata, Feb 23 (IANS): Slamming the reduction in the Employees' Provident Fund (EPF) interest rate, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamasta Banerjee on Thursday accused the BJP-led Central government of snatching away people's money and defrauding banks in the name of 'Acche Din' (good days) .

"BJP's 'acche Din' means snatching away people's money, extorting money from the banks and make everyone penniless. Even yesterday, the EPF interest rate has been reduced by one percent. Before the BJP came to power the interest rate was 8.8 percent... it has dipped to 8.5 percent in the last few years," Banerjee said at a public meeting in North Dinajpur district's Hematpur.

Referring to the Rs 11,300 crore Punjab National Bank (PNB) scam, she claimed the Central government tries to neutralise such massive money frauds by taking away money from the common people.

"Whenever there is a massive fraud, they (centre) try to balance it by taking money out of the common man's pocket. Imagine how much money they are taking away from every individual by reducing the interest by one percent," she said.

"How can such scams happen. These are government organisatons. But there are no audits, no CAG reports," she said.

The Trinamool Congress supremo said while the interest rates on various schemes have been drastically reduced, while people are also skeptical about their savings in the banks due to the proposed Financial Resolution and Deposit Insurance (FRDI) Bill.

"They are reducing the interest in Provident Fund in the name of increasing the daily allowance of the employees. The savings rates have also been reduced. Moreover, people are not sure if they would get back their money kept in the banks," Banerjee said.

"If the proposed FRDI bill gets implemented the banks take a call on whether the customers and fixed deposit holders would get their money back or not," she warned.

Banerjee further accused the centre's ruling party of trying divide people along communal lines all over the country before elections and snatching away money from banks and people's pockets after the elections are over.

She also criticised the centre for the possible disinvestment in companies like Burn Standard Co Ltd, that is considered to be the "pride of Bengal".

  

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  • Avinash, Mangalore

    Fri, Feb 23 2018

    Acche din for criminals in UP under Yogi raj.. No one wants to leave jails now and no one wants to commit crime.. criminals encountered daily.
    Acche din for comman man.. No blasts or kasab like terror attacks on comman man.
    All counterfeit currencies washed out in one swipe.
    Sagarmala project.
    Make in India.
    Doklam. If it was not for Indian army Bhutan would have been in danger.
    Real estate prices down.
    Chabahar port.
    Two islands for Indian army in Seychelles and Mauritius for maritime and counter attack Chinese navy in Modis tour.
    N number of people being rescued helped supported by Sushma Swaraj. And many more....

    Support him for the kind of work he and his administration has done.. Entire world is praising him but congress supports only find his flaws.

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  • Flavian dsouza, chik/bengaluru

    Fri, Feb 23 2018

    This is the result of govt doing all woring things - removed rajan and replaced urjit patel to facialiate all this , 3,50,000 crores waive doff , nirav modi and kotahir escaped with 15k crores and all this adds up to losses and poor senior citizens and ppf and epf interests rates are reduced and petrol and deisel prcies have gone up ..petrol at 120 $ during UPA and now its 50$ where are the savings going ...
    UPA would have given an economy and growth which would have put us in the league of rich nations for the petrol prices prevaling now

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  • MaNi, Karkala

    Fri, Feb 23 2018

    In 2014 people could not understand real meaning of modi’s achche din. Now people are smart enough to understand. Hope this time they will not repeat the same.

    Manamohana..... namo.....nama......

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  • L n T, Mumbai

    Fri, Feb 23 2018

    Yes yes Achce din
    Desh Badal Raha hai
    Subke saath subka loot aur India chodke bagho.

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  • AMAR NATHAL, MANGALORE

    Fri, Feb 23 2018

    Only way to know what it means is by knowing how much Party politicians have amassed in just two years. The last hurdle for acche din is our independent judiciary. Once you muzzle it, then hell breaks loose. You can keep choosing even the president of India on party political ideology. Then you expect judiciary not to interfere in political matters. This is what our PM wanted and said so. What else and what more can you expect from our politicians?

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  • Vincent Rodrigues, Bengaluru/Katapadi

    Fri, Feb 23 2018

    She may be right in her interpretation since the acche din is only to those who snatch peoples money in the bank through frauds

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  • Moshu, Mangaluru

    Fri, Feb 23 2018

    And giving clean chit to criminals and deadly terrorists

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