The TMC asserted that the CBI’s actions had been supposed to smear the social gathering’s popularity amidst the continued Lok Sabha elections. On Friday, CBI performed raids in a number of places in West Bengal’s Sandeshkhali in reference to an assault on ED officers and found arms and ammunition, together with foreign-made pistols.
In response to the invention of weapons, the social gathering accused the BJP of colluding with the CBI and NSG in a conspiracy.
“As we speak, i.e. 26.04.2024, is the day earmarked because the polling day for Part II of the following Lok Sabha Elections, 2024. Extra particularly in West Bengal, the voters was scheduled to vote in three Parliamentary Constituencies, that are, Darjeeling, Raiganj and Balurghat. Whereas elections had been happening, the CBI intentionally carried out an unscrupulous raid at an empty location in Sandeshkhali. Media studies recommend that the CBI known as in further forces together with the bomb squad of the Nationwide Safety Guard (NSG). It has additionally been reported that arms and ammunition have been recovered from a home throughout such raid,” the assertion learn.
“On this regard, it’s acknowledged that although legislation and order’ is a site falling utterly inside the ambit of the State Authorities, the CBI didn’t situation an actionable discover to the State Authorities and/or the police authorities earlier than finishing up such a raid. Additional, the State Police has a completely purposeful bomb disposal squad which might have assisted your entire operation, if the CBI certainly felt {that a} bomb squad was required throughout such a raid. Nonetheless, no such help was sought by the CBI. It’s additional astonishing to note that media personnel had been already current throughout such the raid even earlier than the State administration arrived on the spot. At such cut-off date, it was already nationwide information that weapons had been recovered in the course of the raid. There is no such thing as a approach of understanding with certainty, as as to whether these weapons had been certainly recovered in the course of the search and seizure process or whether or not they had been surreptitiously planted by the CBI/NSG,” the assertion added.
The TMC additionally acknowledged that BJP and Prime Minister Narendra Modi have “commonly focused AITC” throughout its marketing campaign path vis-à-vis alleged crimes dedicated in Sandeshkhali.
“The CBI is managed by the BJP by means of the Central Authorities… It’s reiterated that within the absence of any consultant of the State Authorities, the purported restoration of arms and ammunition is presumably a ploy employed by the BJP in conspiracy with the CBI and the NSG to plant such weapons on the web site.” TMC mentioned within the letter.
