Former TMC leader Partha Chatterjee has said that a day after he was removed from all organizational posts in the party, he is being implicated in a conspiracy.
Former Bengal minister Partha Chatterjee. (Photo: Instagram/its official)
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee relieved him of his duties as minister in charge of several heavy portfolios, including commerce and industry, a day after former TMC leader Partha Chatterjee said he was being implicated in a conspiracy. .
Chatterjee was also removed from all party posts and suspended from the Trinamool Congress. His expulsion comes hours after an uproar among the party over the expulsion of the former leader.
Chatterjee was the general secretary of TMC for nearly two decades. He was appointed the party’s national vice president earlier this year.
Meanwhile, Chatterjee’s close aide Arpita Mukherjee also injured her leg due to a fall. He was being taken inside the hospital in a wheelchair.
ED seizes gold, cash
The Enforcement Directorate on Friday raided another apartment belonging to Arpita Mukherjee, a former Bengal minister’s aide. This comes a day after the probe agency About Rs 28 crore in cash and more than 5 kg of gold were recovered from another flat of his.
The agency had earlier recovered Rs 21.90 crore in cash, Rs 56 lakh in foreign currency and gold worth Rs 76 lakh from the house of his associate.
The CBI, as directed by the Calcutta High Court, is probing alleged irregularities in recruitment of Group-C and D employees as well as teachers in government-sponsored and aided schools on the recommendations of the West Bengal School Service Commission (SSC). The ED is tracking the money trail in the scam.
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