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Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee holds a meeting with DMs, SPs and task force committee members over price hike of essential commodities, in Kolkata, Tuesday, July 9, 2024. (Photo: PTI)
Attacking the BJP-led NDA government at the Centre, West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee said that the NDA govt was unstable, and may not complete its term, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said on Friday as she met two key INDIA bloc leaders in Mumbai more than a month after the Lok Sabha poll results. CM Mamata also criticised the Centre over the three new criminal laws that came into force on July 1. CM Mamata, who is the leader of the Trinamool Congress, held separate meetings with Shiv Sena (UBT) Chief Uddhav Thackeray and Nationalist Congress Party (SP) president Sharad Pawar during her first visit to Mumbai after the declaration of Lok Sabha poll results on June 4. She also attended Reliance Industries Chariman Mukesh Ambani’s son Anant Ambani’s wedding ceremony on Friday.
Launching an attack on BJP-led Centre, The Congress on Friday slammed the government’s move to declare June 25, the day the Emergency was declared in 1975, as ‘Samvidhaan Hatya Diwas’ as yet another “headline-grabbing exercise in hypocrisy” by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Singh alleged that the motive behind the arrest of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal in the excise policy-linked money laundering case was to wipe out the AAP from the country’s politcal landscape. Sanjay Singh added, “Bail was granted, and the ED court declared Arvind Kejriwal innocent because there is a condition in PMLA that the judge should believe the person is innocent to grant bail. Ignoring this law, the ED approached the High Court without a copy of the order. For the first time in the history of the Indian judiciary, there was a stay on bail. The Supreme Court said that the grounds of the arrest will be heard by a larger bench, and in the meantime, we are granting him interim bail.”
First Published: Jul 13 2024 | 8:38 AM IST
