Mamata hits out at PM over CBI notice to TMC

West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee today hit out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi over CBI notice to her party asking for details of its accounts, saying "nothing happens without his orders".
"The CBI is the Prime Minister's department, nothing happens without his orders," Mamata alleged.
She was addressing a public rally for the April 18 Kolkata Municipal Corporation elections at Beliaghata here.
"It has not sent notice to any other party in the country, so why has it sent to us?" the Trinamool Congress supremo asked, alleging a "political vendetta" by the BJP.
"It has been done as the Trinamool Congress is the only party which can take on the BJP," she claimed.

Banerjee also alleged that the CBI was "sold out" to the West Bengal unit of BJP.

"They cannot fight us politically, so they are using CBI," she said, claiming, such issues cropped up only before elections and then died down.
"As the KMC election is nearing, they (BJP) have started to make issues out of non-issues, I can tell these things will again crop up before the 2016 Assembly elections in the state," she said on the CBI's recent notice to the TMC All-India General Secretary Subrata Bakshi to furnish details of its accounts.
Bakshi replaced Mukul Roy, once the most-trusted aide of Banerjee, as the party's all-India general secretary in mid-February, after Roy fell out of favour with the party's supremo.

"People of West Bengal will answer them. The party, the leader of which has sold his coat for a few crores of rupees is questioning our source of funds," Banerjee said in an indirect reference to Modi's coat which was recently auctioned.
"Those who have spent unlimited funds for Lok Sabha elections are questioning Trinamool Congress' income," she alleged.