Centre using agencies as they can't fight us politically: Mamata

Kolkata: Unable to "combat the Trinamool Congress (TMC) politically", the BJP is "deploying agencies against" us to harass our leaders, party chairperson Mamata Banerjee claimed while addressing a virtual rally to celebrate the foundation day of the Trinamool Congress Chhatra Parishad (TMCP) on Saturday.

"BJP is the most inhuman and vindictive party I have seen during my political career spanning over four-and-a-half decades. They have sold off the country," she said.

Reacting to the Enforcement Directorate's notice sent to Abhishek Banerjee in connection with the coal scam case, she said: "People should know that I do not take the monthly pension of the MPs worth Rs 1 lakh and the Chief Minister's salary which is more than a lakh. Every time, they attack my family members. We know which BJP leaders had stayed in the hotels owned by the coal mafias in Asansol. I have always maintained a political courtesy but will not allow the BJP to take me for a ride."

Warning of retaliation against the 'politically motivated' moves of the saffron camp and stepping up the counter-attack, she said: "No use pointing fingers at the Trinamool for corruption in coal. It is under the Centre. What about its ministers? What about the BJP leaders who looted the coal belt of Bengal, the Asansol region."