New Delhi, April 14 (IANS) Trinamool Congress (TMC) Common Secretary Abhishek Banerjee on Sunday claimed that his chopper was raided by the Revenue Tax officers and the IT sleuths additionally misbehaved together with his safety males.
The IT searches reportedly befell when his chopper was in Kolkata’s Behala Flying Membership.
In line with social gathering officers, the tax officers additionally acquired right into a verbal altercation with the Trinamool chief’s safety employees and threatened to floor the chopper.
Trinamool fumed over the IT raids at considered one of its tallest leaders and accused the BJP of deploying authorities companies in its bid to focus on the rival events.
The social gathering additionally stated that the current raids are a testomony of BJP’s ‘worry and frustration’.
“These actions are testomony to the truth that BJP is trembling in terms of Bengal and throughout the nation, in some way, they wish to wipe out the opposition in a bid to return to energy once more,” the TMC stated in a press release.
Banerjee additionally took to X and wrote: “As a substitute of eradicating the @NIA_India DG and SP, @ECISVEEP and@BJP4India selected to deploy MINIONS FROM IT to go looking and raid my chopper and safety personnel at the moment, leading to NO FINDINGS. The ZAMINDARS can exert all of the would possibly however Bengal’s SPIRIT OF RESISTANCE won’t ever waver.”
Sanket Gokhale, senior TMC chief and Rajya Sabha MP, slammed the raids and accused the I-T dept of blocking his marketing campaign days forward of polls, on the behest of PM Modi’s dispensation.
Abhishek Banerjee is the nephew of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and is an incumbent MP from Diamond Harbour Lok Sabha constituency.
–IANS
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