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Delhi Police personnel detain TMC leaders throughout a dharna of a TMC delegation after a gathering with Election Fee of India (ECI).
A ten-member delegation of Trinamool Congress (TMC) had introduced the dharna after assembly a full bench of the Election Fee (EC) to press their demand
A number of TMC leaders, who have been holding a dharna outdoors the Election Fee’s workplace over their calls for towards central probe businesses, have been detained by the Delhi police on Monday.
The dharna was organised by the TMC to press their demand that the CBI, NIA, ED and Earnings Tax Division chiefs be modified.
The TMC has been alleging that the central probe businesses have been focusing on opposition events and their leaders on the behest of the BJP-led Centre.
For this function, a 10-member delegation of TMC met a full bench of the Election Fee (EC) to current their calls for. They introduced the dharna after the assembly.
“The BJP is misusing central businesses towards us. The best way NIA, ED and CBI are working and focusing on TMC leaders is shameful. We might request the EC to make sure a stage taking part in discipline for all political events,” Sen informed reporters on the Kolkata airport earlier than leaving for New Delhi.
Amongst these arrested embrace TMC MPs Derek O’Brien, Mohammed Nadimul Haque, Dola Sen, Saket Gokhale and Sagarika Ghose, MLA Vivek Gupta, former MPs Arpita Ghosh, Santanu Sen and Abir Ranjan Biswas, and get together’s college students’ wing West Bengal vp Sudip Raha have been detained.
Quickly after their detention, TMC accused Delhi police of kidnapping its MPs as their buses have been diverted earlier than any prior info.
URGENT:Delhi Police has kidnapped us 5 TMC MPs & 4 former MPs.
We have been protesting at EC & have been informed we’ll be taken to Mandir Marg Police Station.
After which, abruptly, the bus has been diverted & going to an unknown location.
Notice this – 5 SITTING MPs & 4 former MPs…
— Saket Gokhale (@SaketGokhale) April 8, 2024
“Delhi Police has kidnapped us 5 TMC MPs & 4 former MPs. We have been protesting at EC & have been informed we’d be taken to Mandir Marg Police Station. After which, abruptly, the bus has been diverted & going to an unknown location,” Saket Gokhale mentioned.
“Notice this – 5 SITTING MPs & 4 former MPs have been assaulted, detained, & now being illegally taken to some unknown place by Delhi Police,” he added.
NIA & BJP Share An ‘Unholy Alliance’: TMC
The Trinamool Congress on Sunday alleged an “unholy alliance” between the NIA and the BJP forward of elections, triggering the central investigating company to disclaim any mala fide intention and label the whole controversy as “unlucky”.
A staff of the NIA was allegedly attacked by a mob on Saturday when it went to arrest two major suspects in a 2022 blast case in West Bengal’s Purba Medinipur district, sparking a political slugfest with Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee accusing the investigators of assaulting the villagers.
(With PTI inputs)
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