Hitting back against the Congress demand for a CBI inquiry and Mamata Banerjee’s resignation in the aftermath of the multi-crore chit fund scam, the Bengal Chief Minister on Saturday called for a ‘Parivartan’ at the Centre.
“This UPA-II Government has lost all its credibility. So I give a call for Parivartan at the Centre. There should be no UPA-III”, a fuming Banerjee told a huge party rally at Panihati in North 24 Parganas hours after junior Union Minister Deepa Dasmunshi demanded her resignation at a Congress meeting against the ponzy fund scam.”
“We have definite information that save a few States the Congress will be wiped out at the hustings because they have given the country a regime of scams,” the Chief Minister thundered referring to the recent bribery scandal in the Railways. The Railways had become a place where “fixers and racketeers thrive” she said.
linking the Congress’ demand for a CBI inquiry into the Saradha chit-fund scam Banerjee said, “The Congress Government is very vindictive. They are after us because we withdrew our support protesting against FDI and other anti-people decisions.”
No amount of browbeating could stop the Trinamool Congress from raising the right issues, she said. “They are threatening me with CBI, SEBI and other kinds of probe. But I am not afraid, no amount of threat can intimidate me,” she said, adding the Congress was employing dirty tactics against her as “they want to prevent me from playing a role in the national politics.”
Insisting that the Congress and the left had of late developed an unholy nexus, Banerjee said the two parties were backing each others misdeeds.
“Not only now the Congress was scheming against us even when we were in the UPA-II,” Banerjee said, adding how “I had asked the then Union Finance Minister what he had discovered from the files that his Ministry was preparing against our MPs.”
Coming down heavily on the Centre for its weak handling of the Sarabjit case Banerjee wondered, “What the Government had done in Sarabjit’s case because I have been told that in the second post-mortem in India the doctors found no kidney, heart or liver in his body when Pakistan returned it to India.”
The Chief Minister had been under intense attack from the Opposition for Trinamool leaders’ alleged involvement in the multi-crore chit fund scam.