CBI being misused by BJP: Mamata on Alok Verma issue

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee slammed the BJP government on Friday over the ongoing tussle in the CBI and said the saffron party had been misusing the probe agency for political gains by trying to turn it into "his master's voice".

Reiterating that a state of "super emergency" was prevailing in the country, she criticised the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill and alleged that the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was trying to communalise the issue.

"The CBI has repeatedly been misused by the BJP. They are destroying institutions like the CBI and the RBI. They are trying to use the CBI for political gains and turn it into 'his master's voice'," the Trinamool Congress (TMC) supremo said, reacting to the Alok Verma episode.

"The CBI is doing whatever BJP leaders are asking it to do. In the RBI (Reserve Bank of India) too, they have done the same thing," she said.

Former CBI director Verma, ousted by a high-powered committee, asked the government on Friday to treat him as ...