West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee vowed to take to streets on Tuesday, after her party MP Sudip Bandyopadhyay was arrested by the CBI in connection with his alleged involvement in the Rose Valley chit fund scam.
Moments after Bandyopadhyay was taken into custody by the CBI, whose office the TMC Lok Sabha MP visited earlier on Tuesday to “extend his cooperation” to investigations in the multi-crore chit fund case, violent TMC followers attacked and vandalised the BJP office in Kolkata.
The CRPF was deployed outside the BJP office in Kolkata late on Tuesday evening to control the violent protests.
The CBI had earlier arrested another TMC MP, Tapas Paul, last week for his alleged links to Kolkata-headquartered Rose Valley headed by Gautam Kundu. Kundu has been in judicial custody for several months now.
Several senior TMC MLAs and MPs including Saugata Roy, Dinesh Trivedi and Partha Chatterjee arrived at the CBI office in Kolkata on Tuesday evening. Read the full story here.
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