Trinamool Congress MP Abhishek Banerjee on Sunday hit strongly back atthe BJP Government for maligning his name by falsely implicating hiswife in an alleged gold smuggling case at Netaji Subhas International Airport in Kolkata.

“There is a false and fabricated charge being brought against my wife” implicating her in a gold smuggling case he said. “I must clarify that this is out and out false. Those who fail to take me on politically are trying to implicate my family members, which is a mean way of doing politics,” Banerjee said who is also the nephew of Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said asking “is this being done because I

am the only person to have filed a suit against BJP president Amit Shah?”

Wondering as to why the FIR in the stated case was filed about a week after the incident allegedly took place he challenged the “customs authorities to produce a single CCTV footage to prove their charges. If they can prove it I will quit politics. Let alone 2 kg of gold being smuggled by my wife, let them show even 2 gram that costs Rs 7,000 in the market I will leave politics.”

Banerjee said his wife had gone to Bangkok from where she originally belonged “for medical treatment.” He said, “subsequently I will present all the related documents before the authorities and the court stating how my wife had gone to Bangkok to address a medical condition.”

Questioning why the authorities who had allegedly intercepted Banerjee’s wife with 2 kgs of gold failed to confiscate the precious article inside the airport premises he dismissed charges that the State police had intervened in the affair to secure his wife’s release.

Apart from serving libel notices to certain sections of the tele media Banerjee had also filed a police complaint stating how his wife was harassed by the customs authorities at the airport while she was returning from Bangkok.

Had his wife been carrying unaccounted gold and had the State police interfered in the matter then “why the CISF under whose jurisdiction the area falls was not called to act,” he said.

Attacking the Centre for making issues personal he said “those who are calling themselves as chowkidars are themselves harassing the common people,” adding it was beneath his and his family’s dignity to make personal attacks on fellow politicians.

“It is not our way of doing politics or else we could easily have asked how the son of Amit Shah could convert his resources worth Rs 50,000 to Rs 50 crore in a year’s time.”

Among various persons the Banerjees have served libel notice to CPI(M) central committee member Sujan Chakrabarty who said he will not withdraw his tweet and dared Banerjee to file a libel suit against him.”