: Hours after the CBI summoned Trinamool Congress (TMC) general secretary and Rajya Sabha MP Mukul Roy, senior TMC leader and West Bengal Education Minister Partha Chatterjee accused the BJP of using the CBI for “political vendetta.”

“The CBI has turned into a front office of the BJP. The BJP is controlling the CBI. The BJP headquarters have now turned into a busy office of making blueprints on how to use the CBI for political vendetta,” Mr. Chatterjee told media persons here on Monday. He also accused the BJP of trying to put regional parties in a spot by using the CBI. The party spokesperson Derek O’ Brien levelled similar charges against the BJP and said that such arrests are a “deliberate bid” to “finish all regional parties.”

“…they are doing this against many States. Trinamool functioned almost as the main Opposition party in Parliament. By doing this, the BJP hopes to silence us. This devious strategy of theirs will not succeed, because, we do not succumb. We fight politically,” Mr O’Brian said.

Mr. Charterjee claimed that prior to the Lok Sabha by-election (in Bangaon in North 24 Parganas) and the civic polls in West Bngal, the BJP started this “naked game of political vendetta in a planned manner.” Mr. Chatterjee said, “The Trinamool cannot be wiped out just by summoning one Mukul Roy. Lakhs of Mukuls will hit the streets in protest.” He announced that the TMC would organise State-wide agitations in protest against the CBI’s summon to Mr. Roy.

Lashing out against BJP’s observer in Bengal Siddharth Nath Singh, Mr. Chatterjee said, “Even before the CBI called or wrote to Mr. Roy, Mr. Singh told the media that in 2015 Mukul Roy will be on the run.”

What I said earlier that in 2015 it will be “bhag Mukul bhag is proving to be true now