Siliguri, Oct. 8 -- Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari on Thursday attacked the previous government without naming its former Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and her nephew Abhishek Banerjee, saying the rate had remained unchanged since 2017 for patients in state-run hospitals.
Addressing a government programme at Manikchak on Thursday, Adhikari said the government had increased the diet rate for hospital patients from Rs 56.40 to Rs 110.
He said the rate had remained at Rs 56.40 since 2017 and no initiative had been taken to ensure that poor patients received proper food three times a day.
"Actually, the people of the Chief Minister's family do not go to hospitals. They do not go to ordinary hospitals. The people of the former Chief Ministe...