Rujira Banerjee, born Rujira Naroola, wife of TMC MP Abhishek Banerjee, is currently being dragged into a case of citizenship by the CBI. She was a born Thai national, who had obtained PIO card from the Indian high commission in Thailand in 2010, and had later applied for OCI card. It has been said by sources in non-BJP camps that the case by the CBI has been deliberately taken up right before the election as the CBI is under the control of the central government led by the BJP, which is bent on importing communal politics into West Bengal.
On Tuesday, a team of CBI officials questioned Trinamool Congress MP Abhishek Banerjee’s wife Rujira Banerjee at their south Kolkata residence for nearly an hour in connection with the coal pilferage case.
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Ahead of the CBI team’s visit, Chief Minister and TMC chief Mamata Banerjee visited nephew Abhishek’s residence. She spent about 10 minutes there before leaving with his daughter.
The central agency team reached Abhishek’s residence just before noon and the examination went on for around an hour, sources said. The team left at around 1.15 pm amid heavy police presence. “Our team questioned her (Rujira Banerjee) based on the evidence we have gathered. The investigation is underway,” said a CBI official.
