Trinamool wants CBI under lokpal, says it is misused to settle political scores

NEW DELHI: Trinamool Congress MPs staged a noisy protest and walked out of the Lok Sabha on Monday over the arrest of senior West Bengal minister Madan Mitra in the Saradha chit fund scam case and accused the NDA regime of “misusing CBI to settle political scores with political rivals.” The party demanded that the operational control of CBI should be taken off from the Prime Minister and be handed over to the Lokpal.

As soon as the House convened , Trinamool MPs were seen draped in black to register their protest. They held up placards with slogans like,“PM, Amit Shah, Bengal is angry” and also flashed some photographs of Sahara group chief Subrata Roy shaking hands with Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

With their demand for a calling attention motion disallowed, the angry Trinamool members rushed to the well of the House raising slogans.

When Saugata Roy was allowed to briefly to speak on the issue, he charged the NDA regime with political misuse of CBI. Pointing out that BJP, as an Opposition party used to say that the CBI had become the “Congress Bureau of Investigation”, he said the same party was using similar methods to unleash the agency on its political rivals.

Parliamentary Affairs Minister Venkaiah Naidu rejected the Trinamool charge and claimed, “the NDA regime does not believe in misusing CBI like the erstwhile UPA regime.” Naidu also protested the Trinamool Congress MPs taking the name of BJP president Amit Shah.