Kolkata, April 2 -- A Trinamool Congress (TMC) candidate for the upcoming assembly elections said on Wednesday that the National Investigation Agency (NIA) summoned him regarding a 2022 bomb blast case. He was asked to visit the NIA's Salt Lake office on Thursday for questioning. "The NIA served the notice hours before I filed my nomination papers today. I have been asked to appear tomorrow," Manab Kumar Porua, the TMC candidate from East Midnapore district's Bhagabanpur seat, told the media. The NIA named Porua in a supplementary charge sheet filed in this case in July 2024. "The blast took place in Naruabila in December 2022. I appeared before NIA officers several times in the past and will continue to cooperate. But serving a notice at this hour is politically motivated," Porua said. Three people died in a bomb explosion inside a house at Naruabila village in East Midnapore's Bhupatinagar area on December 3, 2022. The victims were identified as Raj Kumar Manna, the owner of the house and the TMC's local polling booth committee president and TMC workers, Biswajit Gayen and Buddhadeb Manna. TMC state general secretary Kunal Ghosh said, "This is not the first time that federal agencies have been used for political gains." The NIA did not make any statement on the allegations. htc...