I-T survey on BBC political vendetta of BJP government: Mamata Banerjee

The tax department had begun the survey on Tuesday at the BBC's Delhi and Mumbai offices

Trinamool chief and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has observed the ‘survey’ at BBC’s India offices to be ‘political vendetta’ on the part of the BJP-led government at the Centre.

Responding to a query at her chamber at the state assembly after the presentation of the budget statement, Banerjee said that if there was something ‘illegal’, or any other issue that needed to be looked into, the BBC could have been sent a letter, or they (representatives) could have been talked to, and the matter could have been sorted out.

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“I am not supporting any illegal thing… But I don’t believe this… If the BBC was doing (showing) something against the government… The next day they started their operation like this (one)... This is not desirable, this is very unfortunate, and this is political vendetta,” the chief minister said.

Banerjee claimed that the BJP is running the government with “vendetta”. “It is not only affecting the freedom of the press… There will be no media in this country. The media is already controlled by them,” she said.

The chief minister alleged that the BJP-led government doesn’t care about the people’s mandate. “My sympathy and my support (is) with the media, and (the) BBC,” she added.