With Enforcement Directorate conducting raids in different places of West Bengal ahead oh the Lok Sabha elections 2024, recently Trinamool Congress (TMC) national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee has alleged that a team of the Income Tax (IT) department has raided his chopper and searched it in Kolkata on Sunday.
Taking to the social media platform X (formerly known as Twitter) he wrote, “Instead of removing the @NIA_India DG and SP, @ECISVEEP and @BJP4India chose to deploy MINIONS FROM IT to search and raid my chopper and security personnel today, resulting in NO FINDINGS. The zamindars can exert all their might but Bengal’s SPIRIT OF RESISTANCE will never waver.”
It is also to be noted that the Trinamool Congress has been alleging since 2014 that the I-T department including all other federal agencies are being used as puppets by the central government, BJP for various political reasons.
“The chopper was kept for a trial run since Abhishek Banerjee is scheduled to take a flight to Tamluk in East Midnapore on Monday for Lok Sabha campaign. The IT officers went through the luggage and the cockpit. They did not show any reason to the security personnel guarding the chopper. They found nothing. The city police have been informed about the raid,” a TMC leader stated.
“The desperate manner in which federal agencies are being used shows that the BJP is afraid of Abhishek Banerjee,” said TMC spokesperson Santanu Sen.
While on the other hand, the I-T department central office was closed in Kolkata and therewas no official present there to give any further comments. On the other hand, Rahul Sinha who was a former state president of the Bengal BJP unit said there was nothing unusual behind conducting the IT raid.
