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After RS yesterday, TMC raises the issue of CBI raid at Delhi CMO in LS

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After Rajya Sabha yesterday, Trinamool Congress led the charge in Lok Sabha against the Centre over CBI raids at the Delhi Chief Minister’s office.

Leader of the party in Lok Sabha, Sudip Bandyopadhyay criticised the CBI in strongest terms, calling the incident a blot on federal structure of the country.

“In a federal structure in a democracy how can the office of a Chief Minister be raided by the CBI?” he asked. In a democracy, the Chief Minister of the States are also elected by the people. It pains me that CBI raided the CMO, Sudip Bandyopadhyay said while adding that the CBI had become GBI (Gujarat Bureau of Investigation).

“The files the CBI searched, it is said, belonged to the DDCA. Let there be a Joint Parliamentary Committee to investigate this,” Sudip Banerjee added.

 

Twitter alliance:

As the Leader of Trinamool in Lok Sabha, Sudip Bandyopadhyay was speaking, The Chief Minister of Delhi was following his speech on Twitter. Mr Arvind Kejriwal also retweeted several tweets of Sudip Bandyopadhyay’s speech.

 

Kejriwal Tweet

Screenshot of Arvind Kejriwal’s Timeline

Click here for the full transcript of Sudip Bandyopadhyay’s speech

Trinamool condemns CBI raid at Delhi CM’s office

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National Spokesperson of the party and Leader of the party in Rajya Sabha, Derek O’Brien today called the CBI raid at Delhi Chief Minister’s unprecedented and demanded clarification from the Central government.

“Has Emergency been declared?” he asked in a statement posted on the party’s Twitter channel.

Trinamool also gave a notice in Rajya Sabha under Rule 267 to suspend usual business and immediately take up discussion on the CBI raid at Delhi CM’s office.

“This is an issue about the country and the federal structure. This is beyond a party issue. The office of a democratically elected CM has been raided by CBI,” Derek said in Rajya Sabha.

“CBI reports directly to the Prime Minister. Files in Chief Minister’s office have been gone through. he BJP is trying to kill the States. They are destroying federalism,” he added while maintaining that the party was not trying to defend any corrupt official.

Trinamool MPs also raised the slogan “Bachao bachao federalism” in Rajya Sabha.

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