"I am not involved in any illegal work," Trinamool Congress General Secretary Mukul Roy said today.
Trinamool Congress' All India General Secretary and Rajya Sabha MP, Mukul Roy, has been called by the Central Bureau of India or CBI for questioning in connection with the multi-crore Saradha chit fund scam.
A minister in the Trinamool government in Bengal and two party MPs are in jail for links with the Saradha scam which cheated thousands of people in the state of their savings.
"I have not been summoned. I have merely been informed by the CBI that they want to speak to me," Mukul Roy said in Delhi. "I shall return to Kolkata in a couple of days and meet the CBI," Mr Roy said.
"I have done nothing immoral or illegal in my life," he added.
In Kolkata, however, the Trinamool reacted angrily, saying, "who is running the CBI? Is it the Prime Minister's Office or Amit Shah's office?"
"This is blatant vindictiveness. The so-called summons have not yet reached and BJP honchos are already giving bytes," said MP Derek O'Brien in a statement.
"Trinamool functioned almost as the main opposition party in Parliament. By doing this the BJP hopes to silence us. This is a deliberate bid to try and finish all regional parties and they are doing this against many states... This devious strategy of theirs will not succeed, because, we do not succumb. We fight politically," the statement said.