{"id":309016,"date":"2019-02-05T18:18:39","date_gmt":"2019-02-05T18:18:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=309016"},"modified":"2019-02-05T18:20:56","modified_gmt":"2019-02-05T18:20:56","slug":"west-bengal-cm-mamata-banerjee-calls-off-3-day-dharna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/west-bengal-cm-mamata-banerjee-calls-off-3-day-dharna\/","title":{"rendered":"West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee calls off 3-day dharna"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-309017 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/mamata-b-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"567\" height=\"376\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/02\/mamata-b-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/02\/mamata-b-768x510.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/02\/mamata-b-696x462.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/02\/mamata-b-632x420.jpg 632w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/02\/mamata-b.jpg 828w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 567px) 100vw, 567px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday evening ended her three-day long dharna.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The move came after the Supreme Court cautioned the CBI against using any coercive steps including arrest against Kolkata Police commissioner Rajeev Kumar.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Mamata said, &#8220;the Court gave a positive judgment today. Next week, \u201cwe will take up in Delhi.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The protest was a victory for the Constitution and the democracy, Mamata added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cAfter consulting leaders of major opposition parties and positive decision of Supreme Court, we are calling off dharna,\u201d said Mamata. Opposition leaders including Chandrababu Naidu and Tejashwi Yadav had visited her at the dharna spot.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Mamata Banerjee launched indefinite sit-in on Sunday in protest against the alleged &#8220;CBI misuse&#8221; by the Central government.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">On Sunday, five CBI officers were detained by Kolkata police officers after they reached Kolkata Police Commissioner Rajeev Kumar&#8217;s official residence to question him in the Saradha chit fund scam case.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Monday moved the Supreme Court against the showdown on Sunday after the Kolkata police detained CBI officers outside Kolkata Commissioner Rajeev Kumar\u2019s residence.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Supreme Court today directed Rajeev Kumar to make himself available to CBI in investigations related to the Saradha chit fund scam.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">However, SC said that no coercive steps including arrest shall be taken against Kumar.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday evening ended her three-day long dharna. The move came after the Supreme Court cautioned the CBI against using any coercive steps including arrest against Kolkata Police commissioner Rajeev Kumar. Mamata said, &#8220;the Court gave a positive judgment today. Next week, \u201cwe will take up in Delhi.&#8221; The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":309017,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2089,1801,2014,2917],"tags":[1889,411],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309016"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309016"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":309018,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309016\/revisions\/309018"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/309017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}