Kolkata: Claiming that relieving Partha Chatterjee from his duties as a minister, days after his arrest in reference to a faculty recruitment rip-off, was not sufficient to set issues proper, the CPI(M) on Thursday sought West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s resignation. Bikash Bhattacharya, who’s the CPI(M)’s Rajya Sabha MP, maintained that deserving candidates may not be capable to bag jobs beneath the Mamata Banerjee regime.
“The CM ought to instantly resign from the submit. Eligible candidates within the state will be unable to get jobs until the time the TMC is in energy,” stated Bhattacharya, a senior advocate who’s representing petitioners in a number of instances related with irregular college appointments earlier than the Calcutta Excessive Courtroom.
In an analogous vein, CPI(M)’s state secretary Mohd Salim acknowledged that situations of irregularities have been reported previously, too, “however no correct motion was taken in these instances.” “A number of different departments, too, have dedicated irregularities previously. These haven’t been handled… Merely eradicating Chatterjee is not going to set issues proper. The chief minister ought to at the least say that she is going to not tolerate such irregularities,” Salim informed reporters right here.
“She is attempting to place the blame on others, passing the buck; that is completely incorrect,” he added. The ED arrested Chatterjee on July 23 in reference to its investigation into alleged irregularities in a recruitment drive by the West Bengal Faculty Service Fee (SSC).
Earlier within the day, the state authorities relieved Chatterjee of his duties as minister in-charge of varied departments. “Partha Chatterjee, minister in cost, division of business, commerce and enterprises, division of data know-how and electronics, division of parliamentary affairs and division of public enterprises and industrial reconstruction, is hereby relieved of his duties as MIC of the aforesaid division,” an official order stated. The chief minister stated that he could be taking care of the portfolios held by Chatterjee in the intervening time.