‘I am no thief, BJP using agencies to harass me’: Bengal minister Firhad Hakim after CBI interrogation
Click here! A CBI team also searched the residence of Madan Mitra, a former West Bengal minister and the MLA of Kamarhati in North 24 Parganas district, in Bhowanipore area. "The investigations have revealed that Mitra had a specific role in the recruitments made in Kamarhati Municipality," the official claimed.
The CBI also searched the residence of former chairman of Kanchrapara Municipality Sudama Roy, ex-chairman of Halisahar Municipality Angshuman Roy and Krishnanagar Municipality's former chief Ashim Ghosh, the officials said. The CBI spokesperson said "the agency today conducted searches around 12 places, including Kolkata, Kanchrapara, Barrackpore, Halisahar, Dumdum, North Dumdum, Krishnanagar, Taki, Kamarhati, Chetla and Bhowanipore, at the premises of certain persons, including public servants in an ongoing investigation of a case." Slamming the action, the TMC said it was a desperate attempt to divert attention from its ongoing demonstration outside the Raj Bhavan over demands for central funds.
Rejecting the allegations, BJP spokesperson Samik Bhattacharya said, "If the TMC has nothing to hide, why are they afraid of ED and CBI?" "Whenever TMC leaders are summoned by the ED or CBI, they cry foul and accuse the agencies of being politically motivated. Yet, the reality is that the TMC is deeply mired in corruption with nearly every leader facing some allegation or the other," PTI reported Bhattacharya as saying.
The CPI(M) has also alleged large-scale corruption in the recruitments made by the civic bodies. "The central agencies stepped in as the state CID failed," CPI(M) central committee member Sujan Chakraborty reportedly claimed.
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