Kolkata, March 30 -- The Trinamool Congress has taken a dig at the BJP for bringing the country to a pass where as high a person as its Finance Minister cannot fight elections for want of money.
Days after reports went viral that Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman had expressed her unwillingness to contest the election for want of money, senior TMC leader Kunal Ghosh on Friday said that "if a Finance Minister of a country cannot fight elections then how a common man will enter the fray . imagine the situation to which the BJP has brought us to," reminding how Bengal Chief Minister had earlier demanded State-funded elections.
"This is the reason why our leader Mamata Banerjee had demanded State-funded elections . but this Government is no...