Now, Smriti rides scooter in Bengal
Union Minister Smriti Irani rode a scooter as the police didn’t permit BJP’s Parivartan Yatra to enter the Panchpota area of South 24 Parganas district.
Slamming West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, Irani said that Mamata Banerjee is showing her own ‘moral values’ by using ‘derogatory’ terms about Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah.
“The West Bengal police had always been a hindrance to the Opposition. Since they didn’t permit our vehicle to enter the scheduled route we continued our rally on a scooter,” claimed Irani.
This move by the BJP leader comes a day after the TMC supremo was seen riding an electric scooter to protest against the constant price hike of petrol by the BJP led central government.
Rubbishing the claims that women are being targeted by BJP leaders, the BJP central leader stated, “if a woman (Rujira Naroola, wife of TMC MP Abhishek Banerjee) does something wrong she will not be spared.” Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) mayor Firhad Hakim slammed Irani for driving a petrol-run scooter.
“She drove a petrol-run vehicle. Clearly, it doesn’t matter to her and to the BJP that fuel prices are constantly going up,” mentioned Hakim. Apart from Smriti Irani, other central leaders like Rajnath Singh and Nityanand Rai took part in BJP’s Parivartan Yatra in West Bengal. ED raids several locations Much ahead the election dates were announced, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) and the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) conducted raids across the state in connection with the coal smuggling case.
From Kolkata to Asansol, and its adjacent areas, at least15 locations the raids were conducted at the houses and offices of businessmen in West Bengal.
According to sources, properties of businessman Randhir Kumar Barnwal were raided in Kolkata. While the ED is looking after the financial angle of the ongoing coal scam, the CBI is taking care of the criminal intention in the same. The CBI had also issued a lookout notice on the alleged kingpin of the coal scam Anup Majhi, alias Lala, who has been absconding.