While Singhvi accused Banerjee of shedding "crocodile tears" for the poor in the state, the Trinamool said: "This is rich, coming from a party that is shedding crocodile tears over corruption on the eve of voting."
"Frankly, we don`t trust the CBI. For close to 70 years, it has been the Congress Bureau of Investigation.
"In the past 10 years, it has been manipulated by the ruling party to protect itself and its cronies in the 2G scandal, the coal scandal and a host of other corruption cases - ranging from civil aviation and Air-India to S-band spectrum and Devas," the statement said.
Claiming that the CBI has failed to deliver results in various cases like the Netai and Nandigram "killings", as also the Gyaneshwari Express sabotage, the Trinamool leaders asked whether the Congress "even remember such episodes?"
"In our experience, the CBI delays and obfuscates; its political masters seldom allow it to bring an investigation to fruition. We are determined not to let this happen to the victims of Saradha."
