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Mamata's cash-transfer state earns her tremendous support – but also generates resentment


Mamata s cash-transfer state earns her tremendous support – but also generates resentment
Mamata s cash-transfer state earns her tremendous support – but also generates resentment
Welfare is so fundamental that even communal polarisation and ‘cut money’ complaints fall along lines of whether the person received state benefits or not.
Shoaib Daniyal
Arjun Mahato has a dim view of the Trinamool Congress cadre in his area. “Can you imagine, they are telling people that if [West Bengal Chief Minister] Mamata [Banerjee] loses, Kanyashree will shut down?” he says with disgust. “All the Trinamool knows how to do is mithya prachar, fake propaganda.”
A Bharatiya Janata Party worker in the district of Purulia, Mahato’s argument is probably correct. It is unlikely that even if the BJP were to win in the ongoing 2021 West Bengal Assembly elections, it would shut down Kanyashree – the Trinamool’s popular 2013 cash transfer scheme to teenage school ....

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