Kolkata/Howrah: CM Suvendu Adhikari said on Thursday he would work to keep “atheist” communists” and “Jamaat” Trinamool away from people of Bengal permanently and ensure that “they are never able to raise their heads again”.Addressing a programme at Howrah’s Kazipara ahead of Chhath Puja, Adhikari said: “Atheist communists, who governed for 34 years, are experts in selling books. But when you approach them to wear a tilak, they will turn their foreheads away. The CM will work to keep ‘atheist’ communists and ‘Jamaat’ Trinamool away from people of Bengal.”Lashing out at TMC govt for attempting to create hurdles for Ram Navami processions and other Hindu religious celebrations, he said: “Today, there is no problem. We won the Nandigram bypoll with a huge margin. We also won from Rejinagar, where Muslims constitute 70 per cent of the population. They are with the govt.”Adhikari accused TMC of destroying Bengal’s tradition and heritage and said the “Mamata Banerjee govt branded people from Bihar, Gujarat, Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh as outsiders and treated illegal immigrants from Bangladesh as sons-in-law with all facilities and hospitality”.The CM slammed TMC for branding BJP a “party of non-Bengalis”, alleging that Trinamool had illegally transferred Rs 20,000-30,000 crore out of the country in the last 15 years.Later, at a programme at Raipur, Bankura, the CM said the Jangalmahal region had remained deprived under both the Left Front and TMC govts, promising a major push for development, environmental protection and industrialisation in the tribal-dominated region.Adhikari slammed the previous govt for spending only Rs 6 crore through the Paschimanchal Unnayan Parishad during the last financial year. “We will spend Rs 1,200 crore through the Parishad in the remaining eight months of the financial year,” he said.Highlighting that allocations for various development boards had increased from Rs 10 crore to Rs 50 crore, the CM said govt would complete formation of boards by Dec to protect the traditions of different communities.Adhikari said govt would crack down on illegal sand mining while working to legalise eligible sand quarries to ensure that revenue was not lost and sand prices remained under control.Stressing the need to protect nature, rivers, forests and hills, Adhikari said his govt would promote environment-friendly industries in Purulia and Bankura. WBIDC would buy land from willing sellers to create a land bank, he added. The CM urged local representatives to submit a list of people willing to sell land to govt.
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