Bengal Chief Minister on Tuesday launched a scathing attack on the central agencies for harassing her family members by conducting raids without notice. Banerjee’s attack on the central agencies comes a day after the Enforcement Directorate raided companies and workshops owned by Trinamool Congress general secretary Abhishek Banerjee who also happens to be her nephew.
Stopping short of naming any specific agency but dropping sufficient hints as to which agency she was meaning Banerjee said, “it is strange that while the Prime Minister talks about cooperation from all sides he attacks the opposition-ruled States as a political vendetta,” adding how they (central agencies) are harassing my family members everyday … I don’t know that he has done but just a day after the boy (junior Banerjee) returned (to India) they have started conducting raids in our houses… even if a small ant bites they will conduct a probe … this is a clear act of political vendetta.”
The Chief Minister who was speaking at a public programme alleged that the agency officials “entered the private premises without serving any notice … and more importantly they would turn out the inmates from the premises and conduct searches … but who knows whether they are ere planting some explosive or any gun or bags of money that might bring with them to falsely implicate the people whose premises they are raiding.”
The ED had on Monday raided various locations related to Abhishek including the premises of Leaps and Bounds of which a number of members of the Banerjee family including the Chief Minister’s nephew himself functioned as managing directors or some other top officials.
In one such premises of Leaps and Bounds at Alipore in South Kolkata the ED officials recovered a number of digital evidences including “dubious transaction details,” sources said adding about 1000 pages of important documents have been seized.