Interestingly, coincides with the party's protest rally in Delhi against the Centre's decision to withhold the state's dues under MGNREGA which he is supposed to lead.
The Calcutta HC has provided a relief to TMC leader Abhishek Banerjee and asked the ED not to take any coercive steps in connection with its probe into the school jobs scam in West Bengal.
Responding after Dharmendra Pradhan's comments on Abhishek Banerjee, TMC Minister Dr. Shashi Panja said that Abhishek has no fear, the CBI has not found anything against him.
The ED official said three of his colleagues questioned Banerjee on his role and association with ‘Leaps and Bounds,’ the company allegedly involved in the scam.
An ED official said that the TMC leader has been called to provide evidence in the school recruitment irregularities.
TMC national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee claimed that the ED has sent a notice to him to appear before it on September 13, the day the first meeting of the coordination committee of the opposition bloc I.N.D.I.A will be held in the national capital.
In a statement, Mohammad Salim further said that the BJP will not do this to unearth the truth as they are only interested in bringing religion to the fore.
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The teachers' recruitment scam is under investigation by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and Enforcement Directorate (ED).
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) summoned Abhishek Banerjee last month over its investigation in the teacher recruitment scam. Abhishek declined to comply citing political responsibilities.
TMC has alleged that West Bengal Congress president Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury has never uttered a single word against Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah.
In the letter to the ED, Banerjee, who is regarded as the party's second-in-command, stated that in addition to preparing for the panchayat elections on July 8, he is traveling as part of the "Trinamool e Nabojowar" (New Wave in Trinamool) campaign.
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Coal pilferage case: "She (Rujira Banerjee) was asked questions about certain accounts in foreign banks. Her statements were recorded,” an ED official told media.
Political outrage was created by TMC leaders after Abhishek Banerjee's wife Rujira was stopped at Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport in Kolkata from boarding a flight.
Rujira, the national general secretary of the Trinamool Congress and a member of the party in the Lok Sabha, was held at the airport in connection with the fraud involving the smuggling of coal from Bengal.
Suvendu Adhikari, the leader of the Opposition in the West Bengal Assembly, made the following statement in response to the most recent arrest in the recruitment "scam" case: "No one involved in the matter will be spared, and all the high and powerful will go to jail."
West Bengal recruitment scam: The Supreme Court stated that it is not inclined to interfere as far as an investigation is concerned. Earlier on May 18, the Calcutta High Court's single-judge bench upheld the previous order of empowering the central agencies to question TMC leader Abhishek Banerjee.
The apex court on Monday agreed to hear the plea on May 26. Banerjee has sought the apex court's direction that no coercive steps be taken against him by the agency.
TMC leader Abhishek Banerjee, who has been called by the CBI to appear at its Kolkata office on Saturday as part of its probe into the school jobs scam, has decided to suspend his mass outreach campaign temporarily to join the probe.
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