Bengal Chief Minister Mamta Banerjee on Wednesday slammed Narendra Modi Government for taking out his political revenge on the Opposition parties. Speaking at the funeral of Bengali cine star and former TMC MP Tapas Paul who died in Mumbai on Tuesday suffering a severe heart attack, Mamata said that Paul was a victim of BJP’s vendetta politics.
“Tapas Paul was a great actor who had to pay with his life for no fault of his. He had to die untimely because of Center’s political vendetta and tormenting psychological pressure brought on him by a Central Agency. He was put in jail for more than a year just because he worked as a Brand Ambassador of some company under investigation.”
The Chief Minister was apparently referring to the CBI Investigation into the multi-crore Rose Valley chit fund case.
“All the film personalities who work as Brand Ambassador’s are at a risk of being framed by this Government.......Tapas was the third victim of this vendetta politics. Earlier our MP Sultan Ahmed and the wife of another MP Prasun Banerjee died a similar death” Banerjee said.
Reacting to her comments, Congress leader of Lok Sabha Adhir Chowdhury and Senior CPIM leader Samik Lahiri said that Banerjee too followed similar vendetta politics in Bengal putting hundreds of Opposition workers in jail. Lahiri said Pal’s death is a glaring example showing whosoever gets close to Mamata Banerjee is at a risk of facing similar faith.