India, March 8 -- Senior BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari on Saturday alleged that the West Bengal government had deliberately withheld central allocations for social welfare projects like Ayushman Bharat and PM Awas Yojana, depriving lakhs of people.

Addressing a 'Poriborton Yatra' rally at Manngalkot in Purba Bardhaman district, the leader of the Opposition said the names of 19 lakh farmers were not forwarded by the State to the Centre for the social welfare projects to help them financially. "Of the 54 lakh deserving recipients for PM's social welfare project for farmers, names of 19 lakh were left out as they belonged to tribal, lower caste Hindu and backward caste Hindu communities. This State Government is anti-farmer," he alleged. In a...