Who funded' Narada sting, asks Mamata Banerjee
Mamata alleged that she had received information that plans were made in the office of a leading media house to harm her party's interests.
Kolkata: West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday said that she also wanted an investigation into the Narada sting operation so that those had masterminded the conspiracy could be identified.
“We also want answer to several questions. Whose money was used for the sting operation and who brought the money from abroad? Who is the mastermind and whose idea was it to release it at the time of election?” she said while addressing a rally at Nadia’s Gayeshpur.
She claimed that the sting operation was a pre-planned move to damage her party’s electoral prospects in the crucial Assembly elections. “The BJP possesses thousands of crores but there had been no probe into their wealth. The TMC is a party of the common people and still it is targeted,” she complained.
The chief minister alleged that she had received information that only a few days ago plans were made in the office of a leading media house to harm her party’s interests. “Even the alliance between the Congress and the CPI(M) was forged on the advice of the media house which also decided how many seats will be allotted to the Congress and who will be the candidates of the CPI(M),” Ms Banerjee alleged. Upping her ante, she said she would never buckle under pressure.
Apparently playing on the name of CPI(M)’s state secretary Surjya Kanta Mishra who is leading the Left secular democratic coalition front, she said: “The CPI(M)’s sun set five years ago and it will never rise in Bengal.”