BJP questions Mamata's silence over CBI quizzing TMC leaders

BJP today slammed West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for keeping mum over her party functionaries being summoned by the CBI for questioning in the Saradha chit fund scam.

“We need to know why Mamata Banerjee is silent about several functionaries of Trinamool Congress and associates of TMC leaders being summoned by the CBI. Why didn't she ask for an explanation from his ministers and leaders about why their aides were summoned by CBI?” BJP national secretary Siddharth Nath Singh said.

“Mamata Banerjee should also answer about the deal between the IRCTC and Saradha Tours and Travels,” Singh, also in charge of party's West Bengal unit, told a press conference here.

He said when CMs of different states agreed to a CBI inquiry into Saradha scam, why did only Bengal oppose it? The Supreme Court had to intervene and order the CBI inquiry. Singh dubbed as a “toddler in politics” the TMC MP and Banerjee’s nephew Abhishek Banerjee, who had launched a frontal attack on BJP president Amit Shah.

The BJP leader said Abhishek Banerjee coming out in support of Mamata meant everything was not fine in the rank and file of the TMC.

“Till yesterday we had seen Mukul Roy leading from the front, but after his comment that ‘the IRCTC-Saradha pact was not done during his tenure as Railway minister’ a civil war within TMC was brewing and Banerjee had no other option but to fall back on his nephew as she was not able to trust her party leaders,” he said.