The Shiv Sena once again slammed the Modi government over the issue between the West Bengal government and the CBI, alleging that it was ‘orchestrated’ for political gains in the coming Lok Sabha elections.
In an editorial in party mouthpiece ‘Saamana’, the party said what was happening in Kolkata, was a ‘threat to democracy’.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has been on a sit-in protest since Sunday, against the CBI’s bid to question Kolkata Police Commissioner Rajeev Kumar in chit fund scam cases, declaring that her agitation to save the ‘Constitution and the country’ will go on and she was ready to face the consequences.
The Centre could have acted against the Kolkata Police chief two months back and the CBI should have carried proper summons before visiting his house to question him, said the edit.
Narendra Modi should look into the crisis in West Bengal as a Prime Minister of the country and not as a leader of BJP, it added.
The Sena claimed that BJP was going to fall short of 100 Lok Sabha seats from north India to Maharashtra (in the west), in the Lok Sabha polls.
To fill the gap, BJP has laid its hopes on states like West Bengal to win 10 to 15 seats. All this (the all-out war between the Centre and the Mamata Banerjee government) is being orchestrated with an eye on the Lok Sabha polls, said the Sena, which is an ally of BJP at the Centre and in Maharashtra.
”No doubt, we have our differences with Mamata Banerjee and her party, but she is, indeed, hitting back at the Centre with equal force,” the edit added.(UNI)