The Bharatiya Janata Party has strongly criticised the Trinamool Congress election manifesto. At a press conference in Kolkata today, state BJP president Shamik Bhattacharya alleged that while the Chief Minister promises doorstep healthcare, district hospitals lack life-saving medicines and have become a referral centre for the patients to Kolkata hospital. Bhattacharya claimed that poor-quality drugs are being sold at government fair-price shops, and even doctors advise not to use them. He added that despite talk of modernizing education, nearly eight thousand schools have closed down; many among the rest are lacking either students or teachers. Mocking the Yuva Sathi scheme, he said the government offers unemployed youth a pittance while denying a dearness allowance to its own employees. Bhattacharya dismissed the Chief Minister’s ten announced schemes as mere imagination, insisting that if the BJP comes to power, those promises will be fulfilled within days.