New Delhi, 15 Dec 2015: The CBI raid on the office of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal “is highly condemnable and smacks of a politically motivated act”, the CPI-M said on Tuesday.
“It is unprecedented that in the name of investigating the accusations against a bureaucrat, the office of the chief minister should be sealed and files searched, as alleged by the chief minister,” it said.
“In any case, if indeed the CBI was targeting a bureaucrat whose office was on the same floor as the chief minister’s, as claimed by the CBI, why was the chief minister not consulted?
“This raid is a new low in the (Narendra) Modi government’s encroachment on the rights and dignity of non-BJP elected governments,” the Communist Party of India-Marxist said in a statement.
Mamata shocked by CBI raid
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday said she was “shocked” by the CBI raid and sealing of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s office.
“Sealing of a CM’s office is unprecedented. I am shocked,” Banerjee tweeted.
Kejriwal reacted: “Mamata Di, This is undeclared Emergency.”
(IANS)
