West Bengal Assembly Elections: Congress releases 'people's chargesheet' against TMC, BJP-led Centre

Kolkata: The West Bengal Pradesh Congress Committee on Thursday released a 'people's chargesheet', accusing the ruling TMC and the BJP-led central government of failing the people of the state on issues ranging from corruption and unemployment to cultural identity and funds allocation.

The document alleged that Bengal had suffered under "misgovernance at the state level and neglect at the national level".

In the section targeting the TMC government, the Congress alleged that the state had witnessed the rise of a "syndicate raj", large-scale financial scandals, recruitment irregularities, recurring violence against women and communal unrest.


It also claimed that rising public debt, industrial decline and youth migration reflected deep-rooted governance failures.

"The people of Bengal deserve accountability, not a politics of blame-shifting between two parties that have both let the state down," a senior state Congress leader said at the launch of the 'people's chargesheet'.

The 'chargesheet' cited alleged scams such as the Saradha and Rose Valley chit fund cases, the school recruitment controversy and the ration distribution scam as examples of what it called "institutionalised corruption" under the present dispensation.

The party also criticised the BJP at the Centre, accusing it of promoting "systematic anti-Bengal sentiment", withholding central funds meant for welfare schemes and attempting to undermine Bengal's linguistic and cultural heritage.

The party alleged that central agencies were being used selectively to target political opponents in the state.

It further accused the BJP of turning Bengali identity into a political issue and creating social divisions through "identity-based politics".