FPJ Edit: Investigating agencies, at the service of the party in power The misuse of investigating agencies is not new. Soon after the founding of the Republic, Nehru had targeted a prominent industrialist who was his fierce critic. Having said that, it seems the government does not help its cause when in the midst of an intense election campaign for the West Bengal Assembly the central investigating agencies should summon senior leaders of the Trinamool Congress in long-pending cases. Last week, the CBI summoned a minister in the Mamata Banerjee government to appear in connection with a Ponzi scam in which tens of thousands of ordinary people had lost their meagre savings. A few other TMC leaders, including MPs and MLAs, were summoned by the ED in regard to on-going probes into chit-fund bribes and other such scandals.