Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister
Mamata Banerjee on Friday charged CPI-M with trying to "sabotage"
her efforts to "rebuild the state's economy which was in
ruins".
Speaking at a function to observe the birth
anniversary of state's second chief minister Bidhan Chandra
Roy, she said, "We are trying to rebuild the state from a
scratch. We believe in construction and not in destruction and
we will rebuild Bengal."
According to her, "CPI-M is trying to sabotage all
efforts to rebuild a ruined economy of the state."
Banerjee said the previous government had left a
backlog of salary arrears of government employees for six
months and her government is in a difficult situation to
arrange for the funds.
"We want to rebuild Bengal on the path shown by late
B C Roy and his ideals will be guiding us," she said.
CPI-M has been "doing all politics for the last 34
years at the cost of the state's development and encouraged
party politics in all spheres of life", she said.
"This party totally politicised the administration
and this proves a hurdle before us. The party did nothing to
develop education and health sectors. This non-performance has
its reflections in all other spheres of life," Banerjee said
referring to deaths of 18 children in the state-run B C Roy
children's hospital.
Banerjee, who holds the health portfolio, said, "It is
a matter of surprise that poor people trekked from remote
villages with their sick children to get treatment in
state-run hospitals which refused them admission."
She wondered if the former chief minister and former
health minister ever thought about poor people who were denied
basic medical facilities in state-run hospitals during Left
rule.
She expressed her government's determination to
"totally revamp" the health infrastructure and reach medical
services to remote places.
"Diagnostic centres will be opened at block-level and
efforts will be mounted to set up super-speciality hospitals
in districts," Banerjee said.
PTI
First Published: Friday, July 01, 2011, 19:33