Kolkata: Alleging an "unholy alliance" between the National Investigation Agency (NIA) and the BJP, the Trinamool Congress on Sunday said the Election Commission is "patently silent" on the issue.
TMC national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee, in a post on the
"While this collusion continues, the ECI stands idly by, neglecting its duty to ensure fair play," Banerjee said.
His post was preceded by a press conference held by the TMC, where senior party leader Kuna Ghosh had alleged that a senior state BJP leader from Paschim Bardhaman district, who was earlier with the TMC, had given Rs. Had met NIA SP. On the evening of March 26, he submitted a list of TMC leaders to be arrested by the NIA ahead of the Lok Sabha elections from different parts of the state.
Ghosh said, “I challenge this leader to either refute my allegations with sufficient proof of his movement that day or we will come with his call records and CCTV footage proof after 48 hours.,
Senior Bengal minister and TMC women's wing state president Chandrim Bhattacharya, who was present at the hastily called press conference, said she would only say that the NIA had detected the 2022 firework blast case after a year and a half, just before the elections. “Involvement of a prominent TMC leader was found in Bhupatinagar.”
He said, "This shows that this is not just a case of the NIA arresting a few people in connection with an incident and facing protests from the local people. This is a case of a deeper conspiracy against TMC by the BJP using central agencies." it shows."
Former mayor of Asansol and senior BJP leader Jitendra Tiwari told a TV channel that due to increasing corruption and involvement in cases of terror and atrocities against women and former villagers, TMC is seeing the ground slipping from under its feet and hence it is " She is creating lies and imaginary stories.
Tiwari said, “If TMC leader Kunal Ghosh fails to provide evidence that I or any of your leaders was involved in influencing the NIA investigation or meeting any of their officials, I will file a defamation case against him. "
BJP spokesperson Samik Bhattacharya told reporters that TMC's allegations testify to the state's ruling party's desperation to spin a false narrative against mounting evidence of the involvement of its workers and leaders in wrongdoing.“TMC is trying to divert attention from the complete breakdown of constitutional principles under its rule,” he said.
An NIA team was allegedly attacked by a mob on Saturday when it went to arrest two prime suspects in the 2022 blast case in West Bengal's Purba Medinipur district, following which Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee accused the investigators of attacking villagers. Was accused of doing.
The NIA said one of its officers was injured and a vehicle was damaged in the attack in Bhupatinagar.
Banerjee said it was "self-defence" by the villagers, alleging that the NIA team had barged into several houses in the early hours over a "firecracker bursting incident in 2022".
TMC national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee, in a post on the
"While this collusion continues, the ECI stands idly by, neglecting its duty to ensure fair play," Banerjee said.
His post was preceded by a press conference held by the TMC, where senior party leader Kuna Ghosh had alleged that a senior state BJP leader from Paschim Bardhaman district, who was earlier with the TMC, had given Rs. Had met NIA SP. On the evening of March 26, he submitted a list of TMC leaders to be arrested by the NIA ahead of the Lok Sabha elections from different parts of the state.
Ghosh said, “I challenge this leader to either refute my allegations with sufficient proof of his movement that day or we will come with his call records and CCTV footage proof after 48 hours.,
Senior Bengal minister and TMC women's wing state president Chandrim Bhattacharya, who was present at the hastily called press conference, said she would only say that the NIA had detected the 2022 firework blast case after a year and a half, just before the elections. “Involvement of a prominent TMC leader was found in Bhupatinagar.”
He said, "This shows that this is not just a case of the NIA arresting a few people in connection with an incident and facing protests from the local people. This is a case of a deeper conspiracy against TMC by the BJP using central agencies." it shows."
Former mayor of Asansol and senior BJP leader Jitendra Tiwari told a TV channel that due to increasing corruption and involvement in cases of terror and atrocities against women and former villagers, TMC is seeing the ground slipping from under its feet and hence it is " She is creating lies and imaginary stories.
Tiwari said, “If TMC leader Kunal Ghosh fails to provide evidence that I or any of your leaders was involved in influencing the NIA investigation or meeting any of their officials, I will file a defamation case against him. "
BJP spokesperson Samik Bhattacharya told reporters that TMC's allegations testify to the state's ruling party's desperation to spin a false narrative against mounting evidence of the involvement of its workers and leaders in wrongdoing.“TMC is trying to divert attention from the complete breakdown of constitutional principles under its rule,” he said.
An NIA team was allegedly attacked by a mob on Saturday when it went to arrest two prime suspects in the 2022 blast case in West Bengal's Purba Medinipur district, following which Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee accused the investigators of attacking villagers. Was accused of doing.
The NIA said one of its officers was injured and a vehicle was damaged in the attack in Bhupatinagar.
Banerjee said it was "self-defence" by the villagers, alleging that the NIA team had barged into several houses in the early hours over a "firecracker bursting incident in 2022".
