updated: Feb 25 2021, 20:47 ist
The commuters in Kolkata witnessed an unusual sight on Thursday. West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, in a bid to protest against the rising fuel prices, rode pillion on an e-scooter from her South Kolkata residence to the State Secretariat in the adjoining Hooghly district.
The helmet clad Chief Minister with a poster hanging around her neck waved at the people as Urban Development Minister Firhad Hakim rode the scooter. Rows of cars stopped along the road during the seven km long route as commuters came out in large numbers to capture the incident on their mobile phones. The Chief Minister waved at the curious onlookers as she passed by.
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After a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) notice in connection to a coal scam case, Trinamool Congress leader Abhishek Banerjee s wife Rujira Banerjee on Monday replied to the agency, asking officials to visit her residence between 11 am and 3 pm on Tuesday. Though I am unaware of the reason for me being called for questioning or the subject matter of the investigation, you may visit my residence, as per your convenience between 11 am and 3 pm tomorrow, i.e., 23 February 2021, wrote Rujira in a letter to the CBI. You are requested to kindly inform me your schedule, she added. Earlier on Sunday, CBI served a notice to Rujira Banerjee Naroola, the wife of West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee s nephew Abhishek asking her to join the investigation related to the coal scam case.
The CBI on Sunday served a notice to the wife of TMC leader and Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee s nephew Abhishek Banerjee at his Kolkata residence asking her to join the probe in the coal pilferage case, a development that could further raise the political temperature in poll-bound West Bengal. The team is likely to question Abhishek Banerjee s wife Rujira Banerjee in connection with the case at her residence, sources said. The central probe agency had on Friday carried out a fresh round of searches in connection with the case, they said. The CBI had registered an FIR in November last year against the alleged kingpin of the pilferage racket Manjhi alias Lala, Eastern Coalfield Ltd General Managers Amit Kumar Dhar (of then Kunustoria area now Pandaveswar area) and Jayesh Chandra Rai (Kajor area) besides ECL Chief of Security Tanmay Das, Area Security Inspector, Kunustoria Dhananjay Rai and SSI and security in-charge Kajor area Debashish Mukherjee.