Claiming that the accusation of involvement of its leaders in Saradha scam is false, top Trinamool Congress leader Partha Chatterjee on Thursday said the party would hit the streets if its general secretary Mukul Roy was arrested by CBI in the chit fund case.
Claiming that the accusation of involvement of its leaders in Saradha scam is false, top Trinamool Congress leader Partha Chatterjee on Thursday said the party would hit the streets if its general secretary Mukul Roy was arrested by CBI in the chit fund case.
Apparently targeting the BJP-led government at the Centre, Chatterjee, TMC secretary-general and the state's Education Minister, alleged "attempts were being made to dislodge the government (headed by Mamata Banerjee) by holding out administrative threats). He alleged that failing to counter Trinamool Congress politically which had stopped "BJP wave" in Bengal in 2014 Lok Sabha election, BJP was indulging in "political vengeance" against the TMC government and the party.
"Let them arrest Mukul and we will also show them by hitting the streets... There is nothing but only false allegations," Chatterjee said while speaking at a rally of the party's trade union body INTTUC. The rally, which saw INTTUC workers marching from Gandhi statue to Metro Channel in the heart of the city, was organised over BJP's alleged political vendetta against the party leaders. Chatterjee also alleged CBI was "only harassing" his party leaders and not producing any charge sheet against them while probing the Saradha scam. "Why charge sheet is not being given as yet?" he said.
"Not only Mukul Roy, we are saying that TMC leaders are harassed... If anybody is guilty he can be chargesheeted but in this case that person has been harassed," Chatterjee said. TMC leader and Transport Minister Madan Mitra and party mp Srinjoy Bose have been arrested by CBI in connection with the scam. Roy, the TMC Rajya Sabha member and former railway minister has been asked by the CBI to appear before it. Questioning the neutrality of the CBI investigation in the Saradha scam, Chatterjee accused the Centre of using the investigating agency according to its will.
"We are not against the Supreme Court. We are not against the legal system but we are against the way BJP is using CBI at its will", he said. "When a central leader of BJP can predict what will happen next or the series of questions slated to be asked by CBI come out, then people start doubting CBI's neutral character," he stated. "The only motive behind all these false allegations against our leader is to malign the Mamata Banerjee government so the party leaders lose their confidence in the leadership.
But that's not happening, on contrary we are happy to see that people in villages have started relying more and more on TMC and on Mamata Banerjee," he said. He rubbished the suggestion that several TMC leaders and people were joining the saffron party. "Those who are joining BJP are discarded by the party.
They have nothing to do other than appearing in TV shows or sleeping at home," he said. When enquired about Roy's purpose of visiting New Delhi, only a day after arriving here from the national capital, Chatterjee said "there could be nothing to be sceptical about Roy's visiting New Delhi and the fact is that he is the party's all India general secretary and a Rajya Sabha MP".
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