Congress leader P Chidambaram faced opposition from pro-lawyers of his own party. The lawyers even said that ‘we spit on you. You have become an agent of TMC. Actually the matter was that P Chidambaram had reached the Calcutta High Court to oppose a PIL of Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury. Choudhary is currently Congress in-charge of West Bengal and is a Lok Sabha MP.
What’s the matter?
In fact, Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury had filed a petition in the year 2018 against Mamata Banerjee alleging corruption. In this, he had demanded that the investigation of the case be done by the CBI. The case was related to the sale of 47 percent shares of Metro Dairy of West Bengal to Kventor Agro Limited. It is alleged that after buying the shares, the company transferred 15 percent of the shares directly to the Singapore company. This is the only disinvestment the Mamata Banerjee government has done since 2011.
P Chidambaram had reached the court on behalf of Kventor Agro Ltd. He demanded the court to quash Adhir Ranjan’s PIL. When he started leaving the court premises, the lawyers started shouting slogans. Lawyers surrounded him and even said that he is an agent of TMC.
Lawyer and Congress leader Kaustav Bagchi was shouting, We spit on you. When your party workers are fighting atrocities, you remain an agent of TMC. You are opposing the PIL of the Congress chief of the state. Go Back Mr Chidambaram. A woman was also shouting incessantly, ‘Go back.’ She also waved her black gown in front of Chidambaram.