In a counterattack against the Modi Government, Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday released a more than five-year-old letter written by Sudipto Sen, the jailed Saradha chit fund boss, to the Central Bureau of Investigation, in which he had accused Assam BJP leader Hemant Biswa Sharma of extracting Rs 3 crore from him.
“This letter written by Sudipto Sen will show how the CBI is being used by the BJP to gag the voices of dissent and torture the Opposition,” Mamata said, adding the “letter implicates Assam Deputy Chief Minister Himant Biswa Sarma for extracting Rs 3 crore from Sen.” The letter dated April 2013 and addressed to anti-corruption branch in Kolkata, just before Sen fled Kolkata abruptly downing the shutters of his company, described how BJP’s Man Friday in Assam “extracted Rs 3 crore over the past six months” and got Sen sign on some vouchers.
“Another high-level person has dramatically cheated me. He is Mr Himanta Biswa Sarma. For the last six months, apart one and half years, he has taken from us not less than Rs 3 crore all by cash and some vouchers have been signed by his office executives by some other means”, the letter had quoted, said Mamata.
Attacking her Uttar Pradesh Counterpart Yogi Adityanath, who in Purulia on Tuesday accused the TMC Government with subverting democracy in the State, Mamata said, “First ask him to tame his own people and bring rule of law back in his own State where the minorities and honest police officers are lynched and where there is a riot every other day.”
This time round the BJP would be routed from UP Mamata said, adding “even Yogi will lose his seat if he contests once again from there”.