Sanjay Raut hits out at Centre over ED summons to TMC’s Abhishek Banerjee

Shiv Sena UBT leader Sanjay Raut on Wednesday hit out at the union government ahead of the first meeting of Opposition INDIA blocrsquos Coordination Committee in Delhi Raut said that Trinamool Congress leader Abhishek Banerjee wonrsquot be attending the meeting as the Enforcement Directorate and the Central Bureau of Investigation do not want him to do soRaut was quoted in a news report by agency ANI as saying ldquoToday we will go to the meeting The agenda decided in the Mumbai meeting will be discussed Everybody is going to attend the meeting except Trinamool CongressrdquoHe added ldquoTMC leader Abhishek Banerjee is a member of this committee he is not attending this meeting because ED and the BJP dont want him to The central government does not want Abhishek Banerjee to reach Delhi and participate in the coordination committee meeting of INDIArdquoWATCH On BJP calling the coordination committee meeting as an antiHindu meeting Shiv Sena UBT leader Sanjay Raut says No one in this country is antiHinduEvery religion in this country is respected pictwittercom5jqMWXvusmmdash ANI ANI September 13 2023The TMC leader was summoned by the central probe agency for questioning in the school recruitment scam in West Bengal and was spotted arriving at the agencyrsquos Kolkata office todaySpeaking further Raut said ldquoHe Abhishek was summoned by the ED today We will keep his seat vacant to give a message on how central agencies are torturing members of the Oppositionrdquo According to the ANI report the TMC MP was summoned weeks after office lsquoLeaps and Bounds Pvt Ltdrsquo was raided by ED sleuths which the agency alleged was used to make dubious transactions running into crores of rupees ED also claimed that Banerjee is the Chief Executive Officer of the companyThe MP reacting to the notice said that the central agency wanted him to appear before the sleuths on the very day when the Opposition INDIA blocrsquos Coordination Committee was slated to meet in Delhi He wrote in a social media post ldquoFIRST meet of INDIArsquos coordination comm committee is on 13th Sept in Delhi where Irsquom a member But dir_ed conveniently served me a notice just now to appear before them on the VERY SAME DAY One canrsquot help but marvel at the TIMIDITY amp VACUOSNESS of the 56inch chest model FearofINDIArdquoFIRST meet of INDIArsquos coordination comm is on 13th Sept in Delhi where Im a member But dir_ed conveniently served me a notice just now to appear before thm on the VERY SAME DAY One cant help but marvel at the TIMIDITY amp VACUOSNESS of the 56inch chest model FearofINDIAmdash Abhishek Banerjee abhishekaitc September 10 2023INDIA Coordination Committee MeetINDIA alliancersquos coordination committee will be meeting today for the first time at Nationalist Congress Party chief Sharad Pawarrsquos Delhi residence The 14member coordination committee was announced at the September 1 Mumbai meeting of the Opposition blocThe committee includes Sharad Pawar NCP Raghav Chadha AAP Mehbooba Mufti PDP TR Baalu DMK Sanjay Raut SS Tejasvi Yadav RJD Abhishek Banerjee TMC Hemant Soren JMM KC Venugopal Congress Javed Ali Khan SP Lallan Singh JDU D Raja CPI Omar Abdullah NC and one leader from CPIM