Kolkata

The CBI allowed Kolkata Police Commissioner Rajeev Kumar to return to Kolkata after questioning him for five consecutive days here in connection with chit fund scam cases. CBI officers examined Kumar for his alleged role in tampering of evidence in the Rs 2,000 crore Saradha chit fund scam.

For five days every January the Pink City of Jaipur becomes the centre of attraction as literary stalwarts from India and abroad assemble in huge numbers.

A political slugfest took place last week when the central government-controlled CBI landed in Kolkata to question the city’s police commissioner in connection with Saradha and Rose Valley chit fund scam.

Manner and timing of the CBI action in West Bengal reeks of political vendetta. The graceless spectacle in Kolkata captures a drama that officers, landing up allegedly unannounced and warrantless, at the residence of the state police chief.

However perfect a system, it still relies on men and women of goodwill and honest intent to run it well. On the other hand, even an imperfect system can be managed successfully if people in-charge possess requisite wisdom and good intent.

A futile attempt by the CBI on Sunday to raid the house of city police commissioner Rajeev Kumar in Kolkata to interrogate him about two ponzi schemes rocked both the Houses of Parliament on Monday.

Home Minister Rajnath Singh told Parliament on Monday that the detention of CBI officers in Kolkata was “unprecedented” and indicated that there was a constitutional breakdown in the state.

An all-out war broke out between the Centre and the Mamata Banerjee government on Sunday, with the feisty West Bengal leader beginning a sit-in protest at a city landmark over the CBI’s attempt to question the Kolkata Police chief in connection with chit fund scams, insisting it stifled the spirit of “Constitution and federalism”.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi shows no hesitation in using abusive language and making accusations against those who criticise him.

Can the coming together of 26 non-BJP political parties last Saturday in Kolkata lead to achieving their one point agenda of seeing the back of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.