Vote BJP to power in Bengal to stop Bangladeshi influx: Shah
Purulia, June 28: BJP President Amit Shah on Thursday said his party has successfully stopped infiltration into Tripura from Bangladesh after coming to power there and urged the people of Bengal to usher in BJP rule in the state to achieve the same.
Shah said the state's ruling Trinamool Congress and its chief Mamata Banerjee had failed to curb infiltration, cross-border smuggling of drugs and rise of "Syndicate-raj" in Bengal.
"Tell me friends, can the Mamata government stop the Bangladeshi infiltrators from entering West Bengal? Tell me if they be stopped or not? If you people want to stop the infiltration, uproot this Trinamool Congress government and bring in the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government here. Only then the Bangladeshis can be stopped from entering Bengal," Shah said in a public meeting here.
"There were instances of infiltration in Tripura too. The people there decided 'Chalo Paltai' (let's bring change) and uprooted the communists from power. Today Tripura is on the development path. Such stringent arrangements have been made at the Tripura-Bangladesh border that let alone people, even birds from there are not able to enter even a bit into the Indian territory," he said.
He also accused the Trinamool of helping the sand and coal mafias, arms dealers and those involved in chit fund scams.
"Bengal is lagging behind. There should be new industry initiatives here. Instead, the TMC is only promoting bomb making factories and helping syndicates, coal and sand mafia to prosper. If you want to remove corruption from Bengal, remove those involved in chit fund scams and syndicates from power, you must bring about a political change in Bengal," Shah told the gathering.
Referring to the Centre's scheme that provides rice and wheat at two rupees per kilogram to the poor, Shah said people of Bengal were deprived of aid as the state government did not allow the benefits of the Central government's initiatives to reach the grassroot level here.
"A government that sells the rice allotted for poor and eats up the money does not have the right to stay in power even for a day," he claimed.
Shah charged the Trinamool government with blocking the Narendra Modi-led Central government's bid to provide free health insurance scheme of Rs 5 lakh per family under the Ayushman Bharat Yojana.
"Mamata Banerjee has said the state doesn't need it. I ask the people here do you need it or not?" Shah said and the gathering responded with a big "yes".
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Vivek Ramaswamy indicates massive government job cuts in US
Washington, Nov 16: Entrepreneur-turned politician Vivek Ramaswamy, who along with Tesla owner Elon Musk has been nominated in-charge of the Department of Government Efficiency, has indicated a massive cut in federal government jobs in the United States.
"Elon Musk and I are in a position to start the mass deportations of millions of unelected federal bureaucrats out of the DC bureaucracy. That, too, is how we're going to save this country," Ramaswamy, an Indian American, said at an event in Mar-a-Lago in Florida on Thursday.
"I don't know if you've got to know Elon yet, but he doesn't bring a chisel. He brings a chainsaw. We are going to be taking it to that bureaucracy. It's going to be a lot of fun,” he said.
“We've been taught to believe over the last four years that we have become a nation in decline, that we're at the end of the ancient Roman Empire. All we have is to fight over the scraps of some shrinking pie. I don't think we have to stay as that nation in decline. I think with what happened last week, we're back to being a nation in our ascent. A nation whose best days are actually still ahead of us,” Ramaswamy said.
"It is going to be morning in America, the start of a new dawn, the start of a country where our kids are going to grow up and we're going to tell them and mean it, that you get ahead in the United States again with your own hard work and commitment and dedication, that you're free to speak your mind at every step of the way, that the best person gets the job regardless of their colour," he said.
Meanwhile, Musk and Ramaswamy announced that they will livestream every week to update the American public on the progress of the works by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
"Our goal is to shave the size of government and to be as transparent as possible with the public. Weekly 'Dogecasts' will start soon," Ramaswamy said.
“DOGE's job is to create a government of a size and scope that our Founders would be proud of. Elon Musk and I look forward to fulfilling the mandate given to us by President Trump,” he said.
Ramaswamy, however, argued that too much bureaucracy means less innovation and higher costs. "That’s a real problem with the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), and countless other 3-letter agencies," he said, adding, "They are utterly agnostic to how their daily decisions stifle new inventions and impose costs that deter growth."
"We are assembling the brightest minds in the country. This is the equivalent of a modern Manhattan Project. I think the major problem holding our country back is a federal bureaucracy. Target that cost, save the money, restore self-governance," Ramaswamy said.
