Jawhar Sircar, sought to punch holes in the BJP’s propaganda on governance. The World Bank Government Efficiency Index, he said, ranked India at 66.
“We are behind Botswana, Fiji, Mauritius, Lithuania, Latvia…. If we spent more time on actual governance rather than on advertising slogans and taglines made by ad agencies…, things could have taken place in last 10 years,” he said.
Sircar flagged the Trinamool complaint about the Centre denying Bengal funds for centrally sponsored schemes and for dealing with calamities, alleging an economic blockade of the state.