The Trinamool Congress on Sunday said its general secretary Abhishek Banerjee's helicopter was raided by Income Tax officials in Kolkata's Behala flying club and alleged this was part of a deliberate ploy by the BJP to harass and intimidate opposition candidates whom they cannot engage with politically.
In a post on X, the party said the chopper was undergoing a trial run at Behala Flying Club for Mr Banerjee's visit to Haldia in Purba Medinipur when a team of IT officials arrived and extensively searched it.
"Instead of removing the @NIA_India DG and SP, @ECISVEEP and @BJP4India chose to deploy minions from IT to search and raid my chopper and security personnel today, resulting in no findings," Mr Banerjee said on X.
