"Mamata Banerjee-led West Bengal government has been trying to use police to stifle the voice of the Opposition. They are following the same tactics pursued by Left Front government to destroy democracy in the state. I'm not bothered," Chowdhury said.
Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate of district court, Ali Biswas, yesterday issued a non-bailable arrest warrant against him after the police filed a charge sheet against Chowdhury in the murder of a Trinamool Congress activist Kamal Sheikh in 2011.
"I have been falsely implicated in this case. I will soon give a full report of the incident to Prime Minister and Sonia Gandhi," Chowdhury said.
According to him, Trinamool Congress which failed to make any political dent in Murshidabad district has been using police and administration to corner Congress leaders and supporters by using false cases.
State Congress President Pradip Bhattacharjee, too, condemned the incident and termed it a vindictive politics of Trinamool government.
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