Trinamool Congress national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee once again alleged “political conspiracy” and “vendetta politics” by the BJP Government hours before leaving for Delhi where Enforcement Directorate sleuths were likely to grill him on Monday in relation to multi-crore coal scam and money-laundering case.
“There are allegations being levelled against me and my family of being involved in a scam … allegedly worth hundreds of crores … I that context I had already told in a public meeting last November that if they can prove that I have misappropriated even 10 paisa then I will hang myself in public … no ED or CBI will be required to prosecute me,” Banerjee who is also the nephew of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said.
Alleging rampant misuse of central agencies against political opponents the Diamond Harbour MP challenged top BJP leadership to “spare five minutes in a public debate at a place appointed by them … I will expose them in public as to how they misused central agencies in the past seven years of their rule and what its impact had been on the Indian political
fabric.”
Saying that the BJP was hatching a conspiracy against him and his family after having failed to win in this year’s Assembly elections Banerjee said “this is nothing but a political conspiracy to defame my family and me after they failed miserably to defeat the Trinamool
Congress politically which they had claimed they would before the elections ... there is so much of vindictiveness” and selective prosecution that “in Narada case they are selectively targeting a few leaders and are sparing other who were seen accepting cash openly in front of the camera.”
Banerjee, his wife Rujira Narula and their advocate had been summoned by the ED in Delhi for interrogation in the multi-crore money-laundering case and coal scam.
While, Narula who was to appear before the Agency on September 1 avoided appearances requesting the investigators to grill her at her home in Kolkata in view of pandemic situation particularly when she had little children to tend to back home.
Saying that unlike others the Trinamool Congress had not put its spine on sale Banerjee said “we in TMC have an erect spine and have not put it on sale … no amount of coercion by central agencies can bring us down … we will continue to fight the BJP as we have been all these years.”