BJP Makes use of Companies For Witchhunt, Suffers From ‘Abhishek-Phobia’: Trinamool

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Abhishek Banerjee has been summoned by the ED on November 9

Kolkata:

The Trinamool Congress right this moment lashed out on the BJP for “politically manipulating” central businesses for political witch-hunting and accused it of affected by “Abhishek-phobia” within the backdrop of the ED summoning its nationwide common secretary Abhishek Banerjee.

Mr Banerjee has been summoned by the ED on November 9 in reference to the alleged college jobs rip-off.

“The BJP has been utilizing CBI and ED to serve its political pursuits. The repeated summons to Abhishek Banerjee is nothing however political witch-hunting. The BJP is affected by ‘Abhishek phobia’ as they’ve been unable to battle us politically. They’re tremendously afraid of him,” Trinamool MP Santanu Sen informed PTI.

The senior Trinamool chief alleged that the central businesses have been harassing the members of the family of Mr Banerjee too.

The Trinamool on Tuesday criticised BJP, likening it to a “washer” that transforms corrupt people into virtuous figures upon becoming a member of the saffron celebration.

Reacting to Trinamool’s claims, BJP chief Rahul Sinha had dubbed its allegations of utilizing CBI and ED to harass Banerjee as “baseless”.

“If they’ve any grievances, they will transfer courtroom. Each time the TMC leaders get summoned by the CBI or ED, they blame us (the BJP). Your complete nation is aware of that the TMC is a corrupt celebration,” he stated.

In June, the ED had despatched a discover to Mr Banerjee, summoning him to look earlier than it on June 13 for a probe into alleged unlawful appointments in authorities and government-sponsored major college jobs rip-off in West Bengal. He then declined to conform, citing his engagements with the mass outreach marketing campaign and the July rural polls within the state.

On September 13, he had confronted questioning by ED for 9 hours in reference to the college job rip-off.

The 2-time Trinamool MP had additionally been questioned by the ED twice within the coal pilferage case, as soon as within the company’s workplace within the nationwide capital in 2021 and once more in Kolkata in 2022.

He had confronted 9 hours of questioning by CBI on Might 20 in reference to its investigation into the first college jobs rip-off.

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