KOLKATA:

CM

on Sunday accused the

of letting loose central agencies on her flock, saying several TMC leaders had been asked to choose between going to prison in alleged ponzi cases and the

benefits

of switching sides like some have already done.

“I know the people who are making these plans. No one can scare me. I have fought all my life, and I am not scared of anyone...Just like in Karnataka, the BJP is indulging in horse trading everywhere. One of our MLAs told me that the BJP has offered ₹2 crore and a petrol pump to switch over,” Mamata said from the dais of TMC’s July 21 Martyrs’ Day rally.

Calling the BJP the “biggest dacoits,” she sought to counter the backlash against the TMC over the “cut-money” scandal by asking party workers to organize “return-blackmoney demonstrations” across the state on July 26 and 27.

“Cut money? You are asking the TMC to return cut money? Give us the promised ₹15 lakh black money (attributed to PM Narendra Modi during his 2014 poll campaign). Where did the BJP get all the black money with which you have built offices everywhere? Money that you got from demonetization...return the money,” she said.

Referring to a section of TMC leaders being under the scanner for allegedly taking cut money in return for delivery of welfare schemes to beneficiaries, Mamata said she had already taken corrective measures.

“Let the Ujjwala scheme be investigated. It’s the thieves who shout the loudest.”