Ahmedabad Times

NEW DELHI: Trinamool Congress nationwide common secretary Abhishek Banerjee on Saturday declared that he wouldn’t be intimidated by investigative businesses after being summoned by the West Bengal CID in reference to instances registered in opposition to him.Reacting to the summons and the FIRs filed in opposition to him, Banerjee struck a defiant tone, saying, “Even for those who slit my throat, you’ll have to take seven births to make me cower down.”The West Bengal CID issued a discover directing Banerjee to look earlier than investigators at Bhabani Bhawan, the company’s headquarters in Kolkata, at 12 midday on June 1.Banerjee accused authorities of deploying a number of businesses to focus on him and stated no quantity of strain would drive him to again down.“Allow them to do no matter they need. They’ll do no matter they need. Perceive it this manner, earlier it was simply ED, CBI and now it’s Bengal Police and Kolkata Police too, together with KMC (Kolkata Municipal Company),” Banerjee stated.“There have been 2-3 investigation businesses earlier and now it’s 5. They suppose they may ship 5-6 businesses after me and blackmail me into cowering down. I’m not an individual like that. Even for those who slit my throat or do something you need, you’ll have to suppose 10 occasions and take 7 births to make me cower down. I’m not a traitor,” he added.The summons comes amid a sequence of authorized challenges confronted by the TMC chief in latest weeks.Earlier on Monday, a group of Kolkata Police personnel visited Banerjee’s official residence, ‘Shantiniketan’, situated on Harish Mukherjee Street in south Kolkata. A number of officers, each in uniform and plain garments, had been seen on the premises.Neither Kolkata Police nor the Trinamool Congress formally disclosed the aim of the go to. Nevertheless, a senior police officer described it as a “routine official train”. “There isn’t a law-and-order subject or any particular operation. It was a part of a routine official train,” the officer stated.Additionally learn: From Z-plus safety to stripped surveillance: Why cops landed at Abhishek Banerjee’s residence