New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) raids on Trinamool Congress (TMC) minister Partha Chatterjee and his aide Arpita Mukherjee over their alleged role in Bengal school jobs scam and recovery of huge cash haul has prompted calls for sacking of TMC minister from within the party.
Not one but three TMC ministers have called for strict action against Partha Chatterjee after 2 ED raids and recovery of more than Rs 50 crore cash and 5 kg gold till now.
Chatterjee & his aide are among the key accused in Bengal school jobs scam or SSC scam.
TMC general secretary & spokesperson Kunal Ghosh publicly demanded that the tainted leader be removed from the ministry and also expelled from the party for embarrassing everyone.
“Partha Chatterjee should be removed from ministry and all party-posts immediately. He should be expelled. If this statement considered wrong, party has every right to remove me from all posts. I shall continue as a soldier of @AITCofficial,” Kunal Ghosh said in a post on Twitter.
Yesterday, he said that the arrested minister has brought disgrace to the party and shame to all its members.
Today, he tweeted about TMC party meet over ‘humiliation & ignominy’ brought by its senior minister.
In my earlier tweet, I had expressed my opinion.
Now, the party has taken up the issue.
Avishek Banerjee has convened party meeting today 5pm at TMC bhawan. I have been told to attend that meeting also.
So, as @AITCofficial has taken up the matter, I am deleting the personal one.— Kunal Ghosh (@KunalGhoshAgain) July 28, 2022
However, Kunal Ghosh is not alone, his views on Partha were seconded by 2 other leaders of the party.
“My grandmother used to say, if pus gathers in an abscess, it should be removed. You will stay healthy and can sleep well. It is needless to withstand torture the whole body for one abscess,” said Debangshu Bhattacharya, general secretary of TMC’s youth wing and a state spokesperson in a post on Twitter.
“My grandmother used to say, if pus gathers in an abscess, it should be removed. You will stay healthy and can sleep well. It is needless to withstand torture the whole body for one abscess,” said Debangshu Bhattacharya, general secretary of TMC’s youth wing
“Ghosh is 100% right. Chatterjee should be removed immediately for the party’s interests. Why didn’t Chatterjee say for once that he is innocent? This one incident has tarnished the party’s image. A message should be sent out that the party won’t tolerate corruption,” said Biswajit Deb, TMC MLA said.
Partha’s arrest & how Rs 50 crore cash got unearthed
Partha was arrested by the ED on July 23 after cash was recovered from his home. During the first raid, ED sleuths recovered Rs 21 crore in cash, gold bars worth Rs 2 crore from his associate Arpita Mukherjee’s other flat in Kolkata. The probe agency also found a black diary containing details of financial transactions.
In the second raids, the ED seized about Rs 27.90 crore and about 6 kg gold from another flat of Arpita Mukherjee. All this accounted to cash haul of over Rs 50 crore, illegally stashed at the latter’s house.
