3 KOLKATA 25 SEPTEMBER 2019 WEDNESDAY STATE Rajeev Kumar claims CBI NDA govt has thrown the economy ‘hounding’ him, seeks pre-arrest bail Moving the anticipatory bail prayer, his counsel Debasish Roy submitted before a to the wolves: Amit Mitra division bench presided by Justice S Mun- decision.. You have thrown economy to the shi, that “the CBI is hounding me (Kumar) wolves,” said Mitra, who earlier headed the like anything.” Empowered Committee of State Finance At this, brother judge Justice S Dasgupta Ministers on GST. said, “Go and surrender.” He said the crisis in the Rs one lakh core , ! $ R / )>B" + another major factor. “The NBFCs now face a Monday, for hearing on Wednesday. liquidity crunch”. CBI sleuths have gone to several plac- Turning to direct taxes, Mitra said in the + ( ! A=FG A= + " + tax collection has been only 4.7 percent. The Kumar’s pre-arrest bail prayer was reject- FC ; ed by the Alipore district and sessions court “To make it to the target, you need 27 per cent on September 21. growth in tax collection at a time when economic SP Bureau The agency has given multiple notices to growth rate is tanking”. Kumar to appear before it for questioning as He alleged that the government-made Former Kolkata Police Commissioner a witness in the Saradha scam case. structural destabilisation Government of the Rajeev Kumar on Tuesday claimed that the He, however, did not appear before the economy has resulted in the present miserable CBI was “hounding” him, while seeking CBI and has sought more time on every oc- situation, with the country now having the highest anticipatory bail before the Calcutta High casion. unemployment rate in 45 years”. Court in the multi-crore Saradha chit fund The Saradha group of companies alleg- “What concerns me is that there is not much case.Kumar, who is currently the additional edly duped lakhs of people to the tune of Rs SP Bureau the central government demonetised the higher +P + director general of West Bengal CID, said 2,500 crore, promising higher rates of return denomination currency notes of Rs 1,000 and Rs , R + that his leave will end on Wednesday and on their investments. Kumar has been ac- Accusing the NDA government of “throwing 500 Mitra said “GST is not hitting its target, while his prayer for pre-arrest bail be taken up for cused of tampering with crucial evidence in the economy to the wolves”, West Bengal “This was perhaps the biggest demonetisation the states’ development expenditure has shot up hearing urgently. the scam. Finance Minister Amit Mitra on Monday said exercise in the world other than in Libya or the from 40 per cent to 60 percent, with the centre “surgical strikes” in the form of demonetisation USSR. In no democracy have we seen withdrawal cutting of its share since the last three years and and rolling out of an ‘unprepared’ GST regime as of 86 per cent of currency of two denominations. increasing our share in 18 central projects”. also liquidity crunch of NBFCs were responsible And then the growth rate of 8.15 per cent which Disagreeing that companies did not have Supriyo condemns meme for the present downturn. we had seen in 2015-16 declined to 7.17 a year money to investment, the economist said eight O) D + A=FE+ later. top-50 companies are holding Rs 8 lakh crores in strike on the economy - the demonetisation. “Then on July 1, 2017, came another massive their books. “They are sitting on it because of a Demonetisation was a structural change where structural change, another surgical strike on demand shortfall. on veteran elocutionist both structure and function of the economy had the economy, the GST was introduced. But the “Why is the automobile industry passing SP Bureau their ire and sense of outrage.In been hit,” said Mitra, addressing the Annual system was not yet ready. It was an unprepared 0 another tweet on Tuesday Su- General Meeting of the Bengal Chamber. GST that was rolled out, despite objections from buying cars. So there is a lack of demand. The Union minister Babul Su- priyo said “Dear Urmimaladi, On November 8, 2016, following an us. structural harakiris we have done are trickling priyo on Tuesday ‘condemned’ your religion may be Left, but announcement by prime minister Narendra Modi, “It was a manmade or person-made singular down,” Mitra added. a current meme in the social you have not been born blind. media against eminent Bengali Why can’t you see the real elocutionist Urmimala Bose. truth, or don’t you want to see Will stop politics by Bose, who had in a Facebook it!”While singer Srikanto Panic over NRC grips Kolkata, post on September 22 praised Acharya wrote on Bose’s the agitating Left students of wall “Those behind such BJP, CPI-M in South Jadavpur University “in the distasteful memes should several parts of Bengal be taught a lesson and not country”, was greeted with de- be allowed to get away,” SP Bureau In rural Bengal similar picture was wit- 24 Parganas: Abhishek rogatory remarks having sexist eminent poet Joy Goswami nessed outside various government and pan- innuendos in a meme in social expressed utter disgust and Hundreds of people lined up at government SP Bureau media on September 23. said it is “unthinkable” that 3 “What will we do if we are declared for- The meme has triggered such language can be used 0 , - eigners though we were born and brought up Amidst reports of six deaths puportedly over fears of outrage with many prominent the students,” she said.Basu to attack Bose.On Septem- cates and necessary documents to be in readi- B ) - implementation of NRC in West Bengal, senior TMC personalities including poet Joy had in a Facebook post on Fri- FG+ " ness should NRC be implemented in the state ments of my father being born in this coun- leader Abhishek Banerjee threatened to “stop” BJP and Goswami and singer Srikanto day shared the post of a friend and held up for several hours despite assurances by the TMC government P A; $ H " A<
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