On Monday, The West Bengal Assembly passed a resolution against the “excesses of the central probe agencies”. However, the leader of the Opposition Suvendu Adhikari said such a “resolution against the CBI and ED” is against the rules and laws of the Assembly.
Again, Chief Minister and TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee said she does not think that Prime Minister Narendra Modi is behind the likely excesses of central agencies in the state, but blamed a section of BJP leaders.
The resolution which was passed yesterday was opposed by the BJP. However, it was passed through division, with 189 voting in favor of it and 69 against it. Mamata urged the Prime Minister to guarantee that the program of the union government and the interests of his party (BJP) do not get mixed up. She also blamed a section of the BJP leaders for “misusing” these agencies to serve their interests.
“The present union government is behaving in a dictatorial way. This resolution is not against anyone in particular, but against the biased functioning of the central agencies,” the TMC chief said.
Previously the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) carried out day-long invasions at West Bengal law minister Moloy Ghatak’s properties. It took place in Asansol and Kolkata in connection with a coal smuggling case.
Again, last month TMC leader Anubrata Mondal was arrested by the CBI during its investigation into the alleged cattle smuggling case and is in its custody at present. However, the CBI, which used “to report to the Prime Minister’s Office is now under the jurisdiction of the Union home ministry”, claimed the feisty TMC boss.
The statements nevertheless came on the day the Enforcement Directorate attached assets worth Rs 48 crore of her former minister Partha Chatterjee and his aides in the teachers’ recruitment scam.