KOLKATA/NEW DELHI: The Enforcement Directorate grilled Abhishek Banerjee for eight-and-a-half hours at its New Delhi office on Monday in connection with its ongoing probe into the alleged cattle-smuggling and coal scams, prompting the Trinamool national general secretary to call the ED and the CBI “the BJP’s biggest allies” in the April 12 bypolls in Bengal.
“Last September, when I was questioned in this office for nine hours, we had bypolls in Bengal, including Bhowanipore. Now they have summoned me again just before we have bypolls in Asansol (Lok Sabha) and Ballygunge (assembly). They cannot defeat us electorally, so they use these agencies to intimidate the opposition. But I am made of a different material. The BJP fights elections with the CBI and the ED as its allies,” Abhishek told reporters in Delhi after stepping out of the ED office after 7.30pm.
