State Congress president Adhir Chowdhury said, "He had done this before during the multi-crore Saradha ponzi scam probe and at that time too we had vehemently opposed this attitude of Sibal.”
The Trinamool Congress (TMC) leaders hiring senior Congress leader and noted lawyer Kapil Sibal for their defence in the Narada sting operation case has led to a lot of embarrassment for the state Congress leadership in West Bengal.
Congress MLA and leader of Opposition Abdul Mannan and senior Congress leader Amitabha Chakraborty, who had filed a PIL at the Calcutta High Court seeking a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe into the Narada case, called it professionalism of a lawyer, state Congress president Adhir Chowdhury made no bones about his dissatisfaction. Talking to DNA, he said, “Sibal is one of those persons who had always given precedence to their profession over the political party they are affiliated to. They think that political party can play second fiddle. I totally disagree with this thinking. All said and done, no one can ignore that he is a political personality of the Congress party. The intriguing part is that on the one hand, Congress party has been pleading for a CBI investigation into the Narada sting operation case and, on the other hand, defending the accused on the excuse of one’s profession is simply self-contradictory.”
He also said that it was because of those kinds of people that Congress often lands in the doldrums.
Asked if it made the job for Congress here in Bengal difficult, he said, “It is nothing new. He had done this before during the multi-crore Saradha ponzi scam probe and at that time too we had vehemently opposed this attitude of Sibal.”
To retain the confidence of the people of Bengal, Chowdhury told DNA, “As long as I am the president of West Bengal Congress, Sibal will not be invited to any of the Congress events in West Bengal.”
BJP was quick to latch on the opportunity. “It exposes the twin-face attitude of Congress which we had always said. People can see the contradictory policies of the party and that is why it is in such a wretched condition in the state and at the Centre,” said state BJP president Dilip Ghosh.
Senior Left Front leaders, meanwhile, held a demonstration outside the CBI office at CGO Complex in Salt Lake on Monday demanding a speedy probe into the Narada case. “We want the CBI to carry out the High Court orders as soon as possible and that no under the table understanding between the TMC and the BJP should pose as an impediment to the investigation. We also demand that all the TMC leaders who have been accused should be arrested by the CBI and should be questioned,” said Left Front chairman Biman Bose.
State CPIM secretary Dr Surjyakanta Mishra said, “We want to know why is the state government spending crores of rupees from the state coffer to defend the accused in the Saradha and Narada cases.”
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