Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], May 21 (ANI): West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee will contest by-election from the Bhawanipore Assembly seat, said a Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader on Friday.
Bengal Ministers Arrested In Narada Scam; What About Suvendu Adhikari And Mukul Roy, Asks TMC
Mamata Banerjee told the CBI officers that the arrests were illegal and that the agency will have to arrest her too.
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The CBI on Monday morning arrested Bengal ministers Firhad Hakim and Subrata Mukherjee in connection with the Narada sting operation that allegedly exposed cash for favours scam involving some of the top leaders of the Trinamool Congress at that time. Apart from them, MLA Madan Mitra and former minister Sovan Chatterjee were also arrested.
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Mamata Banerjee held a 6-hour-long dharna outside CBI office in Kolkata arrested the agency arrested four TMC leaders, including 2 state ministers.
On a day when the west coast of the country was hammered by Cyclone Tauktae bringing heavy rains and largescale destruction in Goa, Maharashtra, Gujarat and other states, in the east, Bengal witnessed a political storm on Monday that has the potential to snowball into a huge Centre vs state issue. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Monday morning arrested Mamata s cabinet colleagues Firhad Hakim, Subrata Mukherjee and Trinamool Congress MLA Madan Mitra as well as former minister Sovan Chatterjee in connection with the Narada sting case in which politicians were purportedly caught taking money on camera in 2014.
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The Central Bureau of Investigation on Monday arrested West Bengal Ministers Firhad Hakim and Subrata Mukherjee and Trinamool Congress MLA Madan Mitra in the Narada bribery case, PTI reported.
Former Trinamool Congress leader Sovan Chatterjee has also been arrested in the case, according to the news agency. He had quit Trinamool Congress in 2019 to join Bharatiya Janata Party, but left the saffron party too, in March. He did not contest the elections this year.
Hakim alleged that he was arrested in the case without prior notice, News18 reported. “I will challenge my arrest in court,” he added.
TMC party supporters raised slogans against the BJP- led NDA government, and hurled stones and bricks at security personnel outside Nizam Palace, which houses the CBI regional office there.