Hooghly (West Bengal): Raising up her ante against the role of media – for the second time in two days- chief minister Mamata Banerjee said that she and her party are against the media trial. The chief minister also came down heavily on the centre and alleged that the ongoing investigation and the following arrest are nothing but an effort to topple the government.
“The media is playing the role of kangaroo (court). We are strongly against this media trial. I don't have problems with the functioning of any agency, but it should not be used to malign political parties,” Chief minister Mamata Banerjee told in the inauguration program of a wagon factory at Titagarh in Hooghly district on Wednesday.
The outburst of the Trinamool Congress supremo comes after three days the enforcement directorate arrested former education minister Partha Chatterjee allegedly for his role in the SSC recruitment scam on Sunday. Though on Tuesday the chief minister had tried to distance herself from the incident telling that she was nowhere aware of the whole thing. Claiming her innocence in the whole thing, Banerjee went on to ask the agency to close the case quickly and punish whoever he is found guilty.
