File photo of Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee
Prime Minister Narendra Modi's flagship programme "Swachh Bharat Abhiyan" is not new and it has been going on in West Bengal for the last 2-3 years in another name "Nirmal Bangla", said Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.
"Remember that "Nirmal Bangla" is another name for "Swachh Bharat". This is going on for the last 2-3 years. Many times old things are used in a new way," the chief minister said today at "Shiksha Ratna" award ceremony in Kolkata where teachers from the state were awarded.
Taking a dig at the Centre, she said there were lot of advertisements and slogans for the "Swachh Bharat" scheme, but three out of four top districts in the scheme were from Bengal.
Earlier, the Congress had also claimed the Clean India campaign.
Congress leader, Sachin Pilot had said that by changing the name of 'Nirmal Bharat Yojna' brought by previous UPA government, BJP did not achieve or add any thing to Swachh Bharat Abhiyan and has only spent lots of money on it.
The NDA government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi had changed all schemes initiated by previous UPA government and all of them proved to be a drama, failed and misled people, he had said.