TMC's multi-pronged attack on NIA, others

Forty-eight hours after a team of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) was attacked in Purba Medinipur district’s Bhupatinagar when they went there to investigate a 2022 bomb blast case, the Trinamool Congress on Monday launched a multi-pronged attack on Central agencies alleging that the ruling BJP was using them for political purposes ahead of the Lok Sabha polls.

- SUPROTIM MUKHERJEE

 

The NIA is probing a 2022 bomb blast case in a Trinamool leader’s house in which three people were killed. While Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee attacked the BJP and the law enforcement agencies during her election meeting in Bankura, in Delhi, a 10-member team of Trinamool leaders met the full bench of the Election Commission to demand that that the chiefs of the ED, CBI, Income Tax, and NIA be changed immediately.

While Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee warned the Prime Minister against “using Central agencies for political gains” during her campaign speech, the party despatched its spokesperson Kunal Ghosh to stand by the families of Trinamool Congress leaders, Balai Charan Maity and Manobrata Jana, who were arrested by the NIA. After the meeting, the team sat on dharna outside the Commission office and were finally removed by force by Delhi police.