Trinamool Congress MP Abhishek Banerjee appeared before the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Monday for recording his statement in connection with the alleged illegal mining and pilferage of coal in West Bengal.
Mr. Banerjee reached the ED office around 11 a.m. and was questioned for about six hours. He later said that as a law-abiding citizen, he tried to answer all the queries of the investigating agency.
“We will not be cowed down. We will bow down before the people, not the people in power,” the Trinamool national general secretary said, alleging that he was being targeted as the BJP could not digest its defeat in the 2021 Assembly election in West Bengal.