‘Adani, Mehul Choksi are…’: Mamata Banerjee over Interpol move
Mamata Banerjee alleged that businessmen Gautam Adani and Mehul Choksi are best friends of the BJP and the party was working only for these people.
West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday alleged that businessmen Gautam Adani and Mehul Choksi are the best friends of the Bharatiya Janata Party and the party was working only for these people. Banerjee's comments come after the removal of Choksi's name from the Red Corner Notice list.
On Monday evening, the name of Choksi, who is wanted in a ₹13,000-crore scam in the Punjab National Bank, was not found in Interpol's database of wanted persons list under the Red Corner Notices (RCN).
“Only a few people are running this country. Adani and Mehul Choksi are their best friends and the BJP is working only for these people,” news agency ANI quoted Banerjee as saying.
The Trinamool Congress chief also announced that she will stage a two-day sit-in demonstration in Kolkata from March 29 to protest the BJP-led Union government's alleged discriminative behaviour towards the eastern state.
According to Banerjee, the Centre has not released funds for the MGNREGA project and other initiatives of the housing and road departments.
"West Bengal is the only state which has not received anything from the Centre. It has not given us our due money. Even in this year's Union budget, there was nothing for our state.
"Hence, in protest against the Centre's discrimination towards Bengal, I, as the chief minister, will stage a sit-in demonstration under the statue of Dr B R Ambedkar in Kolkata from March 29 and continue it till the evening of March 30," she told reporters at Dumdum airport before leaving for a three-day trip to Odisha.
Banerjee said she will have a courtesy meeting with her Odisha counterpart Naveen Patnaik during her visit to the coastal state, news agency PTI reported.
