MAMATA VISITS NEPHEW’S HOUSE AHEAD OF CBI TEAM’S VISIT

KOLKATA: Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) officers questioned Rujira Banerjee, wife of Trinamool Congress MP Abhishek Banerjee, in connection with a multi-crore coal smuggling case on Tuesday.

In the morning, chief minister Mamata Banerjee, who happens to be the aunt of Abhishek Banerjee, visited his house. The CBI team, including two woman officers, reached the house moments after the CM left.

CM Banerjee said she was not intimidated by anyone, adding that “a tiger cub is not scared of fighting cats and rats”.

According to CBI officials, Rujira was questioned for around an hour.

Farmer leader Rakesh Tikait said on Tuesday that if the central government does not repeal the three new agriculture laws, the protesting cultivators will march to Parliament in the national capital with 4 million tractors instead of 400,000 the next time. He was referring to the January 26 tractor rally that saw hundreds and thousands of farmers march inside Delhi. Addressing the Kisan Mahapanchayat of United Kisan Morcha in Sikar, Rajasthan Tuesday, Tikait said: “This time the call will be for Parliament gherao. We will announce it and then march towards Delhi. This time 40 lakh tractors will be there instead of four lakh tractors.” Speaking of the violence that broke out during the Republic Day rally, he added that there was a conspiracy to malign the country’s farmers.