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- A furious Mamata Banerjee landed at the CBI office in Kolkata today as two of her ministers, Firhad Hakim and Subrata Mukherjee, were arrested in the Narada bribery case. “
- “The way they have been arrested without due procedure, CBI will have to arrest me also,” the Bengal Chief Minister reportedly said
- Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar alleged “total lawlessness and anarchy” and warned of “repercussions”.
- Firhad Hakim and Subrata Mukherjee were sworn in by the Governor as members of the new Mamata Banerjee cabinet after she won a third straight term.
New Delhi: A furious Mamata Banerjee landed at the CBI office in Kolkata today as two of her ministers, Firhad Hakim and Subrata Mukherjee, were arrested in the Narada bribery case. “The way they have been arrested without due procedure, CBI will have to arrest me also,” the Bengal Chief Minister reportedly said during her more than six-hour stake-out at the CBI office in Nizam Palace.
A huge crowd of Trinamool workers protested outside the building as the ministers were arrested and tried to break barricades. They also threw stones at paramilitary personnel, who used batons to try and remove them.
Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar alleged “total lawlessness and anarchy” and warned of “repercussions”.
Mamata Banerjee’s nephew, Trinamool MP Abhishek Banerjee, appealed for calm. “I urge everyone to abide by the law and refrain from any activity that violates lockdown norms for the sake of the larger interest of Bengal and its people. We have utmost faith in the judiciary and the battle will be fought legally,” he tweeted.
Central forces arrived at the homes of the ministers and two other leaders this morning and took them to the CBI office, in a dramatic escalation of the Bengal-Centre clash brewing since Mamata Banerjee’s election victory. The two others arrested are Trinamool MLA Madan Mitra and former Trinamool leader Sovan Chatterjee. Sovan Chatterjee, Kolkata’s former mayor and senior minister, quit the Trinamool in 2019, joined the BJP but quit that party too this March.
Mukul Roy and Suvendu Adhikari, who were among the Trinamool leaders allegedly caught taking bribes, have since joined the BJP. Both were Trinamool parliamentarians when the crime was committed but their prosecution was never sanctioned. They are now BJP MLAs after contesting the state election.
Governor Dhankhar had earlier this month sanctioned action against the four arrested today, though a state assembly Speaker has to clear the prosecution of MLAs. The CBI, bypassing the Speaker, approached the Governor instead, in January.
The Governor said he had the authority to grant sanction because they were ministers sworn in by him in 2011.
All four were ministers in the previous Mamata Banerjee government when the Narada bribery tapes were shot in 2014.
Firhad Hakim and Subrata Mukherjee were sworn in by the Governor as members of the new Mamata Banerjee cabinet after she won a third straight term.
The Trinamool and other parties have questioned the timing of the arrests at the height of Bengal’s Covid surge and right after Mamata Banerjee’s landslide victory in polls that turned into a fierce prestige fight between her and the BJP.
All the arrested leaders are accused of accepting ₹ 4 to 5 lakh as bribe in a sting operation by the Narada news portal in 2014.
A journalist from Delhi came to Kolkata, posed as a businessman planning to invest in Bengal, gave wads of cash to seven Trinamool MPs, four ministers, one MLA and a police officer as bribe and taped the entire operation.
The so-called “Narada tapes” were released just before the 2016 assembly elections in the state
Suvendu Adhikari was among those caught accepting cash on camera. Mukul Roy was not actually seen taking cash but he sent the sting operator to a police officer who was seen taking bribes. The Trinamool said they were unlikely to face any action because of the “washing machine effect” – the term used by Mamata Banerjee for defections from her party to the BJP by those who wanted to escape prosecution.
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