West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee (File photo: PTI)

Mamata Banerjee Hits Out Centre, Says Not Afraid of Anyone, Can't Be Intimidated With Jail

"As long as there is life in me, I will not be afraid of any intimidation," Banerjee said at a programme here on the International Mother Language Day.

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Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said on Sunday that she is not afraid of anyone and cannot be intimidated with jail or something else. Holding out a challenge without naming any one or political party, the Trinamool Congress supremo said that they have not learnt to lose. Also Read - Focus on Solutions, Not Excuses: Sonia Gandhi Writes To PM Modi Over Fuel Price Hike

“Don’t try to intimidate us with jail, we have fought against guns and are not afraid of fighting against rats,” she said. “As long as there is life in me, I will not be afraid of any intimidation,” Banerjee said at a programme here on the International Mother Language Day. Also Read - BJP Gives Bengali Spin to 'Bella Ciao', Launches 'Slow-Gaan-Pishi Jao' Slogan Against TMC's 'Bengal Wants Its Own Daughter'

The chief minister’s programme was after the CBI had served a notice in the name TMC MP and her nephew Abhishek Banerjee’s wife and sister-in-law Sunday in connection with a case of alleged coal pilferage. “Let there be challenge in 21, let us see whose strength is more; there will be only one game in 21 and I will be the goalkeeper in that match and want to see who wins and who loses,” Banerjee said. Also Read - Won't Be Cowed Down, says Abhishek Banerjee After CBI Summons His Wife In Coal Smuggling Case

“We have not learnt to lose and they won’t be able to defeat us,” Banerjee said without naming anyone.

The ruling TMC and the BJP are engaged in a fierce battle for winning the assembly elections in West Bengal expected shortly.

Abhishek Banerjee Reacts to CBI Summon

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Sunday summoned the wife of TMC leader and MP Abhishek Banerjee in a coal summugling case. Reacting to the central agency’s action ahead of the West Bengal polls, Banerjee took to Twitter and wrote, “At 2pm today, the CBI served a notice in the name of my wife. We have full faith in the law of the land. However, if they think they can use these ploys to intimidate us, they are mistaken. We are not the ones who would ever be cowed down.”

(With agency inputs)

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