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KOLKATA: Trinamool Congress moved Election Commission on Friday alleging “selective raids” by all central agencies – CBI, ED, I-T and NIA – against party candidates and leaders to stop them from poll-related work.
TMC spokesperson and Rajya Sabha MP Saket Gokhale took to social media around noon on Friday to say he has received 11 income-tax notices in past 72 hours for various years, including some that went back seven years.Eight TMC workers were also summoned by NIA during the day in connection with a blast in East Midnapore’s Bhupatinagar in Dec 2022.
A five-member TMC delegation reached EC’s office in New Delhi on Friday and submitted a memorandum. The poll panel, TMC said, will hear them “in detail” on Monday.
Bengal minister Shashi Panja, who was part of the delegation, said, “TMC is disturbed at the manner in which Jharkhand CM Hemant Soren was arrested just before poll announcement. After model code of conduct kicked in, Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal was arrested. In Bengal, Mahua Moitra’s offices was raided to stop her from campaigning. State minister Chandranath Sinha is being issued one summon after another. Even a Kolkata MC councillor’s (Jui Biswas) home was raided (by I-T) for three days.”
Panja said these “selective raids” by central agencies on opposition leaders are “discriminatory, illegal, and contrary to EC’s assertions of free and fair polls”, and added that Bengal appears to be the primary target. She pointed out that EC has power under Article 234 of the Constitution to ensure a level playing field.
Shortly after TMC leaders met EC in Delhi, party leader Kunal Ghosh took to X to allege that NIA was acting against TMC at behest of BJP. TMC workers have been summoned by NIA in connection with a Dec 2022 blast that ripped apart a TMC worker’s home in East Midnapore and resulted in three deaths.
TMC spokesperson and Rajya Sabha MP Saket Gokhale took to social media around noon on Friday to say he has received 11 income-tax notices in past 72 hours for various years, including some that went back seven years.Eight TMC workers were also summoned by NIA during the day in connection with a blast in East Midnapore’s Bhupatinagar in Dec 2022.
A five-member TMC delegation reached EC’s office in New Delhi on Friday and submitted a memorandum. The poll panel, TMC said, will hear them “in detail” on Monday.
Bengal minister Shashi Panja, who was part of the delegation, said, “TMC is disturbed at the manner in which Jharkhand CM Hemant Soren was arrested just before poll announcement. After model code of conduct kicked in, Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal was arrested. In Bengal, Mahua Moitra’s offices was raided to stop her from campaigning. State minister Chandranath Sinha is being issued one summon after another. Even a Kolkata MC councillor’s (Jui Biswas) home was raided (by I-T) for three days.”
Panja said these “selective raids” by central agencies on opposition leaders are “discriminatory, illegal, and contrary to EC’s assertions of free and fair polls”, and added that Bengal appears to be the primary target. She pointed out that EC has power under Article 234 of the Constitution to ensure a level playing field.
Shortly after TMC leaders met EC in Delhi, party leader Kunal Ghosh took to X to allege that NIA was acting against TMC at behest of BJP. TMC workers have been summoned by NIA in connection with a Dec 2022 blast that ripped apart a TMC worker’s home in East Midnapore and resulted in three deaths.
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