Mamata Banerjee held a 6-hour-long dharna outdoors CBI office in Kolkata arrested the company arrested 4 TMC leaders, together with 2 state ministers.
On a day when the west coast of the nation was hammered by Cyclone Tauktae bringing heavy rains and largescale destruction in Goa, Maharashtra, Gujarat and different states, in the east, Bengal witnessed a political storm on Monday that has the potential to snowball into an enormous Centre vs state challenge. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Monday morning arrested Mamata’s cupboard colleagues Firhad Hakim, Subrata Mukherjee and Trinamool Congress MLA Madan Mitra in addition to former minister Sovan Chatterjee in reference to the Narada sting case in which politicians have been purportedly caught taking cash on digital camera in 2014.
As quickly because the information of the arrest of her occasion leaders was made public, CM Mamata Banerjee rushed to the CBI Kolkata office located at the Nizam Palace constructing.
The chief minister, who arrived at the CBI office round 11 am, “told our officers that they have to arrest her if they want her to leave Nizam Palace,” sources in the central probe company mentioned. Mamata Banerjee left the constructing in the night after practically six-hour-long sit-in.
The TMC leaders have been granted bail in the night. However, it was cancelled by the Calcutta High Court late evening on Monday.
TMC supporters conflict with police
While Mamata protested contained in the CBI office, TMC supporters held demonstrations defying lockdown norms outdoors and at numerous areas in the town. TMC occasion supporters defied Bengals lockdown norms, raised slogans towards the BJP-led NDA authorities, and hurled stones and bricks at safety personnel outdoors Nizam Palace.
The agitators additionally burnt tyres and blocked roads in a number of different components of the state, together with Hooghly, North 24 Parganas and South 24 Parganas districts.
‘BJP unable to simply accept Bengal defeat’
Reacting to the arrests, TMC spokesman Kunal Ghosh claimed that the CBI motion was a vengeful act and a fallout of the BJP’s loss in the West Bengal meeting elections.
“The BJP is still not able to accept defeat in the polls after having made an all-out attempt to win. This is a reprehensible act. When the state is fighting the Covid situation, they are trying to create disturbances in such a manner,” Ghosh mentioned.
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The ruling occasion MP Sougata Roy mentioned this was a “vengeful and vindictive” resolution by the central authorities.
“The CBI action is politically motivated,” mentioned TMC MLA Tapas Roy. West Bengal Assembly Speaker Biman Banerjee dubbed the arrests as unlawful, contending that the CBI transfer on the idea of the governor’s sanction was illegal.
“I have not received any letter from the CBI nor has anybody sought any permission from me as per the protocol,” he mentioned.
Arrests after Governor’s nod
Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar had not too long ago granted sanction to prosecute all of the 4 leaders, following which the probe company finalised its charge-sheet and moved to arrest them.
“I have no idea for what unknown motive they went to the governor and sought his sanction. The chair of the speaker was not vacant at that point, I used to be very a lot in office. This sanction is completely unlawful and arresting anybody on the
foundation of this sanction can also be unlawful,” Biman Banerjee claimed.
Governor Dhankhar urges Mamata to comprise ‘explosive’ protests
Expressing concern over the widespread protests throughout the state, Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar urged CM Mamata Banerjee to comprise the “explosive situation” and requested her to weigh the “repercussions of such lawlessness and failure of constitutional mechanism”.
“Message @MamataOfficial “Total lawlessness & anarchy. Police and administration in silence mode. Hope you understand repercussions of such lawlessness and failure of constitutional mechanism. Time to replicate and comprise this explosive state of affairs that’s worsening minute by minute,” Governor mentioned in his tweet.
(With PTI inputs)
