A Mamata loyalist, the MLA for Behala Paschim meeting constituency since 2001 has served as minister of commerce and industries, training, and parliamentary affairs over the past 20 years. He performed a vital position in Trinamool, notably after Mukul Roy left the celebration in 2017. Partha-da has been the go-to man for celebration members.
However on the day of his arrest, the celebration and its ranks distanced themselves from the trouble-shooter.
The genesis of his fall may be traced to 2016 when he was made training minister. Chatterjee bought enmeshed in an issue in 2019 after phrase unfold that many job-seekers had paid bribes when the state authorities employed lecturers and non-teaching workers in state-run faculties. A five-member advisory panel was set as much as oversee college appointments.
Chatterjee and Trinamool members ignored agitations until the Calcutta excessive court docket took notice of the fees in 2021. That yr, Bratya Basu changed him as training minister. However Partha-da didn’t fall from grace but.
Chatterjee had a clear picture not like many colleagues who have been arrested or indicted within the Saradha rip-off and the Narada tapes leak. He was adjudicator of disputes inside TMC and was assigned the duty of speaking to dissenters forward of a spate of defections in 2020.
Fissures surfaced because the trainer recruitment warmth elevated. When CBI questioned Chatterjee this June, TMC state secretary Kunal Ghosh mentioned the scandal is from his tenure as training minister, not from Basu’s. Chatterjee mentioned operating the federal government was a “collective duty”.