Trinamool Congress MP Abhishek Banerjee alleged on Saturday that West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari was never called for questioning in the Narada sting case, while investigators had repeatedly summoned him in what he called “false cases”.Banerjee made the allegation after police questioned him for nearly four hours over a social media post about Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar.Speaking to reporters outside his Kalighat residence, Banerjee claimed that Adhikari had High Court protection while he was Leader of the Opposition and did not appear before the police or the CBI in the Narada case, despite allegations that he had accepted money in the sting.“There is nothing against me, yet I am repeatedly being summoned in various false cases,” Banerjee said. The Diamond Harbour MP said he had appeared before the police, the CID, the Enforcement Directorate and the CBI whenever summoned.

He said he had answered all the officers’ questions and would cooperate if called again.WHAT POLICE QUESTIONED HIM ABOUTPolice questioned Banerjee at Bhowanipore police station in connection with an FIR registered on May 27. The FIR alleged that he had described Kumar in a social media post as a “puppet of the anti-Bengali Gujarati gang” and that his remarks could harm communal harmony and national integrity.

Banerjee said he was responding to a post by BJP leader Amit Malviya, who, he alleged, had questioned whether Bengali was a language and called it “Bangladeshi”. He said he had explained to the officers whom he meant by “Gujarati gang”.Defending his description of the BJP as “anti-Bengali”, Banerjee alleged that its workers had vandalised a statue of Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar in Kolkata.

He also accused the Centre of withholding funds for housing, rural employment and rural roads in West Bengal for five years.‘RUN IT OVER ME, NOT OVER THE POOR’Banerjee also criticised a bulldozer drive outside his residence earlier this week. He said he had no objection to the removal of government-built structures, including a police camp, but said a memorial at the site should have been spared.He urged the administration to spare footpath vendors whose livelihoods depended on their stalls. “If you want to run a bulldozer, run it over me, not over the poor,” he said.Calling the demolition drive and the cases against him a political vendetta, Banerjee said, “You cannot fight politically, so sometimes it is a bulldozer, sometimes a police case, sometimes a false case.”- Ends