Taking a dig at the one-on-one between West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Left Front Charman Biman Bose on Monday said she is busy saving her own party from the onslaught of the centre.
"She has clearly understood that she needs to save the garden first in order to save the flowers. Many new flowers may bloom in the garden in future, but if the garden itself is gone, then she would be nowhere," Bose said, apparently alluding to the recent rift between her Trinamool Congress fovernment and Central governments over the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe into the chit fund scam.
"There are many sides to the one-on-one meeting with the Prime Minister. While it was decided how the secret understanding between the Trinamool and BJP will progress in future, Banerjee aso pleaded that she and her party leaders tainted in Sarada and Narada scam be spared," he said at a press conference at the CPI-M state headquarters here.
The veteran Communist Party of India-Marxist leader claimed that Banerjee, who was accompanied by Minister and Kolkata Mayor Sovan Chatterjee who was purportedly seen taking money in Narada sting tapes, sought to save him from the ambit of investigation.
"The Chief Minister was accompanied by the city Mayor in Delhi. She also took him to the lunch yesterday. It's obvious that an action plan would be prepared to save him from being convicted for his crime," he alleged.
--IANS
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