Santiniketan, Feb 7 (TIWN) West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar on Thursday made a veiled attack on the Mamata Banerjee administration over the state’s peasants not getting the benefits of the PM Kissan Samman Nidhi and appealed to the government not to “do injustice” to farmers.

Praising Prime Minister Narendra Modi for conceiving and implementing the scheme, Dhankhar said Rs 43,000 crore has been directly transferred to the bank accounts of eight crore peasants, "with no middleman involved...without any advertisement."

Speaking after inaugurating a rural fare close to this campus of Visva-Bharati University in Birbhum district's Bolpur, Dhankhar then turned to the peasants in Bengal not getting a "single paisa" from the scheme.

"70 lakh peasants in Bengal didn't get a single paisa. I feel sad. It is their right. Why didn't they get over Rs 4,000 crore? Who has come in-between? They shouldn't have come.