Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee claimed on Monday that the Union government was intervening in state affairs by employing central agencies, and that the BJP-led administration was bulldozing the country’s federal system.
Ms Banerjee asserted that the “BJP government was worse than that of Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, or Benito Mussolini” during a news conference in Kolkata.
To maintain democracy, she suggested that central agencies “should be granted autonomy.”
“The BJP-led central government is using the central agencies to interfere in the state’s affairs. It is bulldozing the federal structure of the country. There is Tughlaqi rule in force,” she said “The agencies must be granted autonomy and allowed to work impartially without any political interference,” she added.
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