CBI vs Mamata Banerjee live updates: SC to hear CBI's plea on Tuesday

Making a statement in Lok Sabha on the prevailing situation in Kolkata, Union home minister Rajnath Singh described the action against the CBI probe team, which went to question Kolkata Police Commissioner Rajeev Kumar, as "unprecedented" and a threat to the federal political system of the country. "There may be constitutional breakdown in West Bengal... under the Constitution, the central government has been vested with the power to maintain normalcy in any part of the country," he said.

The fact that paramilitary forces had to be deployed for the protection of those officers, who were diligently doing their duty, is for the first time an unprecedented view given to the citizen with regards to the state of anarchy in WestBengal.

Supporters had brought an effigy of Narendra Modi, Mamata asked them to take it away. The effigy was then burnt a short distance away from the dharna dais

Can handle the sit in demonstration at Esplanade by herself, Mamata tells partymen