New Delhi, Dec 5 (PTI) Trinamool Congress MPs staged a protest in Parliament complex on Friday over the issue of pending Central dues for West Bengal, and charged that a “vindictive regime" is starving an entire state to settle political scores.

Holding placards, they raised slogans demanding that pending amount be given to the state.

Party leaders have claimed that the Centre owed the state Rs. 52,000 crore under MGNREGA.

“The state of West Bengal has been constantly deprived by the Modi government because they can’t win in Bengal. Today the 100 days job guarantee is a right given to people by an Act of Parliament, but Rs 52,000 crore is now pending from the government of India," Rajya Sabha MP Sushmita Dev said.

“It is a complete lie by the Modi government when it says there is no ac

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