KOLKATA: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s Trinamool Congress party has lodged a formal complaint with the state’s chief electoral officer, maintaining that the Central Bureau of Investigation raids during the second phase of the Lok Sabha elections were a conspiracy by the BJP to tarnish her party’s image. Mamata Banerjee’s party also accused the West Bengal Election Commission of “turning a blind eye” to the actions of central agencies and their impact on voters in the state.
“In this regard, it is submitted that though ‘law and order’ is a field entirely under the purview of the State Government, the CBI has not issued proper notice to the State Government and/or the police authorities before taking such action. Moreover, the State Police has a fully operational task force bomb disposal which could have helped the entire operation if the CBI had actually felt that a bomb squad was required for such a raid,” TMC said in its letter to the Chief Electoral Officer of West Bengal. Officer.
It may be recalled that the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) conducted raids on Friday during which it recovered arms and ammunition from Sandeshkhali.
The central agency conducted searches and raids in multiple locations and reportedly confiscated foreign-made pistols. The CBI is investigating the mob attack on the Enforcement Directorate team, which was reportedly organized by a local Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader.
ED officers were attacked and attacked when they tried to raid the residence of influential TMC leader Shahjahan Sheikh on January 5 in connection with the ration scam.
The attack, which is believed to have been carried out by Shahjahan’s supporters who had been in hiding for almost two months before his arrest, resulted in a series of complaints against him and set off an intense political battle between the opposition, which included: The INDIA bloc, of which the Trinamool is a member, and the government of Prime Minister Mamata Banerjee.
