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PM you resign from Delhi and go back to Gujarat: Mamata after calling off dharna

PM you resign from Delhi and go back to Gujarat: Mamata after calling off dharna

Mamata Banerjee finally called off her ‘indefinite’ dharna at 6:30 PM on Tuesday evening but promised that she’d continue to agitate.

She said: “This dharna (Save the Constitution) is victory for the Constitution and democracy, so, let us end it today. The Court gave a positive judgement today. Next week, we will continue to take up the issue in Delhi. They (Central govt) want to control all the agencies including the state agencies also? PM you resign from Delhi and go back to Gujarat. One man govt, one party government is there."

Earlier, in the day the Supreme Court of India gave an order asking Rajeev Kumar to submit himself for interrogation in ‘neutral’ Shilloing but said he mustn’t be arrested.

As is wont in politics, both sides claimed victory.

The direction by the apex court came as the sit-in by Banerjee, the Trinamool Congress(TMC) supremo, against the CBI's attempt to question Kumar in connection with chit fund scams entered the third day in Kolkata.

The tense stand-off between the CBI and the Kolkata police disrupted proceedings in Parliament for the second consecutive day amid protests by opposition parties, including the TMC, SP and Congress over alleged misuse of the CBI in West Bengal.

Banerjee said the court direction that no coercive steps, including arrest of Kumar, will take place during the course of investigation, is "our moral victory and boost the morale of civil servants".

Banerjee said she was not fighting for the Kolkata Police commissioner, whom she described as a 'simple man who had put in 34 years of service", but for millions of people of the country.

The order is a victory of the common man, democracy and the Constitution, Banerjee told reporters at her dharna venue.

"There must be some story behind this. Nobody can dare to speak against (Narendra) Modi. Our's is a mass agitation and we are going to fight it unitedly," she said.

The Centre on its part said the court order directing Kumar to make himself available before the CBI was a "blow" to the Banerjee government and a moral victory for the investigating agency.

Reacting, Mamata Banerjee called the move 'politicially motivated'.

The Centre Tuesday asked the West Bengal government to initiate disciplinary proceedings against the Kolkata Police Commissioner Rajeev Kumar for indiscipline and violation of service rules.

The Union Home Ministry, which is the cadre controlling authority of the Indian Police Service officers in the country, has asked the West Bengal Chief Secretary to initiate the process.

In a communication on Tuesday, the Home Ministry said that as per information received by it, Kumar sat in a dharna along with some police officers with Chief Minister of West Bengal Mamata Banerjee which is prima facie in contravention of the extant provisions of the All India Services (Conduct) rules, 1968 and All India Services (Discipline and Appeal) Rules, 1969, .

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