VENDETTA POLITICS?
In early September, Trinamool Congress (TMC) national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee received his third summons—in as many weeks—from the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in an alleged money-laundering case relat-ed to a coal smuggling scam in West Bengal. Before he received the order to appear at the ED office in New Delhi on September 21, Abhishek had already faced a nine-hour grilling by ED officials on September 6 and ignored—on a short-notice plea—another summons to show up on September
The ED, on September 1, had filed a chargesheet in the 2016 Narada sting operation case against TMC ministers Firhad Hakim and Subrata Mukherjee, party MLA Madan Mitra, former Kolkata mayor Sovan Chatterjee and former IPS officer S.M.H. Mirza. On
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