A furious Mamata Banerjee landed at the CBI office in Kolkata today as two of her ministers, Firhad Hakim and Subrata Mukherjee, were arrested in the Narada bribery case.
Crowds of Trinamool supporters surged outside the building as the ministers were arrested.
Central forces arrived at the homes of the ministers and two other leaders this morning and took them to the CBI office, in a dramatic escalation of the Bengal-Centre clash brewing since Mamata Banerjee's election victory.
The two others arrested are Trinamool MLA Madan Mitra and former Trinamool leader Sovan Chatterjee. Sovan Chatterjee, Kolkata's former mayor and senior minister, quit the Trinamool in 2019, joined the BJP but quit that party too this March.