Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday launched a scathing attack on the BJP Government saying the powers that be in Delhi was destroying democracy by suppressing the voices of opposition.
“They are gagging the popular voice … they are suppressing the voice of dissent … What wrong Teesta Sitalvad and Md Zubair had done so that they had to be arrested … couldn’t this Government give some space to democracy … what is happening to the hailed democratic culture of India,” Banerjee told a large audience at Asansol.
Banerjee’s remark came a day after Sitalvad a social activist and Zuvair a journalist were arrested by an anti terror squad of the Gujarat Police for fighting the cases for the victims of the Gujarat riots.
Without naming the top saffron politicians Banerjee said peddlers of hatred were roaming free whereas “those who tried to bring forth the truth are being arrested … is it a crime to tell the truth … is it an offence to expose facts… those who speak out against the Government are harassed by the ED and CBI” she said in an apparent reference to the Gujarat riot cases in which the Supreme Court gave a clean chit to Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Incidentally a galaxy of TMC leaders including the Chief Minister’s own nephew and party national secretary Abhishek Banerjee and his wife Rujira Narula Banerjee have been under the ED and CBI scanner for their alleged roles in the money laundering cases which had reported links to cattle and coal smuggling.