WATCH | Police Lathicharge As TMC Supporters Hold Protest Outside CBI Office Over Arrest Of 4 Leaders In Narada Scam Case

Kolkata: Hundreds of Trinamool Congress supporters gathered outside the CBI office in Kolkata on Monday to protest against the arrests of Bengal ministers Firhad Hakim, Subrata Mukherjee, MLA Madan Mitra and former minister Sovan Chatterjee in connection with Narada sting operation case.

The supporters of the ruling party waved TMC flags, pelted stones at CBI Office gate and raised slogans against the central agency and BJP-led NDA government at the Centre. 

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Taking a note of ruckus created by the TMC supporters, the main gate of the CBI office in Kolkata was immidiately shut and large number of CRPF personnel were deployed inside the CBI campus and outside the main gate to control the crowd. 

Meanwhile, Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar in a tweet saidm “Concerned at alarming situation. Call upon Mamata Banerjee to follow constitutional norms & rule of law. Police must take all steps to maintain law & order. Sad- situation is being allowed to drift with no tangible action by authorities.”

“Total lawlessness & anarchy. Police and administration in silence mode. Hope you realize repercussions of such lawlessness and failure of constitutional mechanism. Time to reflect and contain this explosive situation that is worsening minute by minute,” the Governor said in a following Tweet, tagging TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee. 

The violent protest came after the central agency earlier today arrested the four TMC leaders in connection with the Narada sting case in which politicians were purportedly caught taking money on camera. The Bengal Governor had recently granted sanction to prosecute all the four leaders, following which the CBI finalised its charge sheet and moved to arrest them.

All four were ministers in the previous Mamata Banerjee government when the Narada bribery tapes were released in 2014.

The Narada sting tapes, made public before the 2016 assembly elections in Bengal, were claimed to have been shot in 2014, and people resembling TMC ministers, MPs, and MLAs were allegedly seen in the video taking bribes in lieu of favoured promises.

While TMC has claimed that it is a conspiracy by BJP to topple the Mamata Banerjee government in Bengal, BJP has said that CBI is doing its job.