By PTI
KOLKATA: TMC chief Abhishek Banerjee, who has been known as by the CBI to look at its Kolkata office on Saturday as part of its probe into the faculty jobs rip-off, dared the central firm to arrest him if it has any proof of corruption or misconduct in opposition to him.
His social gathering chief and aunt, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday moreover took up the gauntlet on his behalf, claiming the BJP was gunning for her social gathering colleagues and members of her family, using the investigative companies, and wowed to oust the saffron social gathering from the centre.
Earlier, CBI officers Friday acknowledged Banerjee had been despatched a missive asking him to affix the probe at its workplaces at Nizam Palace proper right here.
“I dare the CBI to arrest me if they have any proof of corruption against me. They have been probing many cases in Bengal for the last several years. They should arrest me if they have any proof against me,” Abhishek acknowledged on Friday at a rally in Bankura, together with that he would return to the city this evening.
On Thursday, Calcutta High Court had dismissed a petition filed by Banerjee searching for recall of a earlier order of the courtroom which acknowledged that investigative companies resembling CBI and ED would possibly interrogate him inside the teacher recruitment rip-off. CBI despatched its letter asking Abhishek Banerjee to look inside 24 hours.
The TMC chief’s establish cropped up in a criticism filed by Kuntal Ghosh, an accused inside the rip-off. Ghosh alleged that he was being pressured by central investigating companies to name Abhishek Banerjee inside the school rip-off case.
“You are hereby directed to appear before me on Saturday, at 11 am …” the letter despatched by a deputy superintendent of the CBI to Banerjee’s Harish Mukherjee freeway take care of acknowledged.
In a tweet, Banerjee acknowledged, “unfazed by these events, I shall strive to serve the people…bring it on.”
Abhishek at his rally shortly after the letter was delivered, accused the BJP of “using” the central firm to stop his ongoing mass outreach advertising marketing campaign as a result of the saffron social gathering was “afraid of the public support” for the programme.
“I will not bow my head before anyone apart from the masses. The BJP is afraid of the public support for the mass outreach campaign. CBI has summoned me, as they (BJP) want this mass outreach campaign to stop,” he acknowledged whereas addressing a roadshow proper right here.
TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee moreover lashed out on the right-wing social gathering, stating, “BJP is after everyone in our party and my family, but we are not afraid of them. CBI should have given some time to Abhishek to appear before it as it had known that he has been on the streets since April 25 to lead the mass outreach campaign.”
“Till BJP is ousted from the Centre, our fight against its tyranny will continue,” Banerjee thundered.
The fiery chief wanted to step in on the ultimate second to deal with a late evening rally nearly from Kolkata, as Abhishek Banerjee, left for Kolkata to have the power to look sooner than CBI on Saturday morning.
A division bench of the Calcutta High Court on Friday did not allow an urgent listening to of an enchantment by the Trinamool Congress nationwide widespread secretary troublesome the one bench order which acknowledged that there was no restraining order on CBI to behave upon a uncover to him.
An attempt to get the chief justice to hearken to it moreover did not succeed. The matter may now be taken up sooner than a visit bench of the High Court which may sit from Monday onwards.
Reacting to the TMC leaders’ remarks, the BJP dubbed the allegations as baseless. “The BJP has nothing to do with the CBI probe. If he has nothing to hide, why is he making such allegations,” BJP state spokesperson Samik Bhattacharya acknowledged.
Standing atop a vehicle, the TMC’s nationwide widespread secretary thanked people for his or her “overwhelming love and support” sooner than leaving for Kolkata.
“I dare the CBI to arrest me if they have any proof of corruption against me. They have been probing many cases in Bengal for the last several years. They should arrest me if they have any proof against me,” he acknowledged, together with that he would return to the city this evening.
Banerjee acknowledged he has shortly suspended his mass outreach advertising marketing campaign – Trinamool Nabojowar (Trinamool New Wave), to affix the probe and might resume it as soon as extra from Bankura on Monday.
“Despite not being given even a day’s prior notice, I will still abide by it (CBI’s missive asking him to appear) as I have done no wrong,” he acknowledged.
TMC chief criticized the CBI for not summoning BJP leaders accused of corruption.
“A person was caught on camera taking bribes, but the CBI never summons him as he has joined the BJP. You can loot, take bribes and commit crimes; you won’t be touched once you join the BJP, as it is now a safe haven for thieves,” he acknowledged whereas referring to the Narada rip-off, which the CBI could be probing.
KOLKATA: TMC chief Abhishek Banerjee, who has been known as by the CBI to look at its Kolkata office on Saturday as part of its probe into the faculty jobs rip-off, dared the central firm to arrest him if it has any proof of corruption or misconduct in opposition to him.
His social gathering chief and aunt, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday moreover took up the gauntlet on his behalf, claiming the BJP was gunning for her social gathering colleagues and members of her family, using the investigative companies, and wowed to oust the saffron social gathering from the centre.
Earlier, CBI officers Friday acknowledged Banerjee had been despatched a missive asking him to affix the probe at its workplaces at Nizam Palace proper right here.googletag.cmd.push(function() googletag.present(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2′); );
“I dare the CBI to arrest me if they have any proof of corruption against me. They have been probing many cases in Bengal for the last several years. They should arrest me if they have any proof against me,” Abhishek acknowledged on Friday at a rally in Bankura, together with that he would return to the city this evening.
On Thursday, Calcutta High Court had dismissed a petition filed by Banerjee searching for recall of a earlier order of the courtroom which acknowledged that investigative companies resembling CBI and ED would possibly interrogate him inside the teacher recruitment rip-off. CBI despatched its letter asking Abhishek Banerjee to look inside 24 hours.
The TMC chief’s establish cropped up in a criticism filed by Kuntal Ghosh, an accused inside the rip-off. Ghosh alleged that he was being pressured by central investigating companies to name Abhishek Banerjee inside the school rip-off case.
“You are hereby directed to appear before me on Saturday, at 11 am …” the letter despatched by a deputy superintendent of the CBI to Banerjee’s Harish Mukherjee freeway take care of acknowledged.
In a tweet, Banerjee acknowledged, “unfazed by these events, I shall strive to serve the people…bring it on.”
Abhishek at his rally shortly after the letter was delivered, accused the BJP of “using” the central firm to stop his ongoing mass outreach advertising marketing campaign as a result of the saffron social gathering was “afraid of the public support” for the programme.
“I will not bow my head before anyone apart from the masses. The BJP is afraid of the public support for the mass outreach campaign. CBI has summoned me, as they (BJP) want this mass outreach campaign to stop,” he acknowledged whereas addressing a roadshow proper right here.
TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee moreover lashed out on the right-wing social gathering, stating, “BJP is after everyone in our party and my family, but we are not afraid of them. CBI should have given some time to Abhishek to appear before it as it had known that he has been on the streets since April 25 to lead the mass outreach campaign.”
“Till BJP is ousted from the Centre, our fight against its tyranny will continue,” Banerjee thundered.
The fiery chief wanted to step in on the ultimate second to deal with a late evening rally nearly from Kolkata, as Abhishek Banerjee, left for Kolkata to have the power to look sooner than CBI on Saturday morning.
A division bench of the Calcutta High Court on Friday did not allow an urgent listening to of an enchantment by the Trinamool Congress nationwide widespread secretary troublesome the one bench order which acknowledged that there was no restraining order on CBI to behave upon a uncover to him.
An attempt to get the chief justice to hearken to it moreover did not succeed. The matter may now be taken up sooner than a visit bench of the High Court which may sit from Monday onwards.
Reacting to the TMC leaders’ remarks, the BJP dubbed the allegations as baseless. “The BJP has nothing to do with the CBI probe. If he has nothing to hide, why is he making such allegations,” BJP state spokesperson Samik Bhattacharya acknowledged.
Standing atop a vehicle, the TMC’s nationwide widespread secretary thanked people for his or her “overwhelming love and support” sooner than leaving for Kolkata.
“I dare the CBI to arrest me if they have any proof of corruption against me. They have been probing many cases in Bengal for the last several years. They should arrest me if they have any proof against me,” he acknowledged, together with that he would return to the city this evening.
Banerjee acknowledged he has shortly suspended his mass outreach advertising marketing campaign – Trinamool Nabojowar (Trinamool New Wave), to affix the probe and might resume it as soon as extra from Bankura on Monday.
“Despite not being given even a day’s prior notice, I will still abide by it (CBI’s missive asking him to appear) as I have done no wrong,” he acknowledged.
TMC chief criticized the CBI for not summoning BJP leaders accused of corruption.
“A person was caught on camera taking bribes, but the CBI never summons him as he has joined the BJP. You can loot, take bribes and commit crimes; you won’t be touched once you join the BJP, as it is now a safe haven for thieves,” he acknowledged whereas referring to the Narada rip-off, which the CBI could be probing.