Have never come across such vindictive party and government: Mamata Banerjee slams BJP

The Trinamool Congress chief was speaking after her nephew Abhishek Banerjee was sent summons by the Enforcement Directorate in a money laundering case.

New Delhi: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday (August 28, 2021) slammed the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and said that she has never come across such a 'vindictive party and government' in her political life. The Trinamool Congress (TMC) chief was speaking after her nephew Abhishek Banerjee was sent summons by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in a money laundering case linked to an alleged coal scam in West Bengal.  Mamata also accused the Narendra Modi-led government of trying to 'bulldoze the federal structure' of the country and snatching away the rights of the states. "The BJP and the Union government can't fight us politically. The party was defeated in the assembly polls and now they are using central agencies against our leaders like Abhishek Banerjee and others. But let me tell them, they can't bulldoze or intimidate us by such threats. We will continue our fight against them," she said.