New Delhi: Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Saturday (July 23, 2022) hit out at Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee after West Bengal minister Partha Chatterjee’s “shut aide” Arpita Mukherjee was discovered with Rs 20 crore at her house. Pradhan regretted that “a mountain of foreign money notes” was found in a home in West Bengal, which is the land of Iswarchandra Vidyasagar and Swami Vivekananda, and termed the reported seizure of money as a “matter of disgrace”.
“A mountain of foreign money notes, to the tune of Rs 21 crore, has been discovered at somebody’s house. We should condemn the corrupt observe, which is shameful on the holy soil of Bengal, the land of Iswarchandra Vidyasagar and Swami Vivekananda, and in addition the divine land of worshippers of Saraswati, Goddess of studying. Strictest motion must be taken in opposition to the perpetrators,” Pradhan was quoted as saying by information company PTI.
Chatterjee, the business and state parliamentary affairs minister, was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Saturday in reference to its investigation into the alleged college jobs rip-off. The ED had on Friday carried out simultaneous raids on the homes of round a dozen folks in reference to the probe into the alleged irregularities in trainer recruitment within the state and seized the accounted money.
Chatterjee was the state training minister when the alleged college jobs rip-off befell.
Trinamool Congress spokesperson Kunal Ghosh, nevertheless, mentioned the get together had nothing to do with the “seizure of money in somebody’s residence who will not be related to us”.
Referring to the TMC spokesperson’s remark, Pradhan mentioned, “The get together has said that it isn’t related to it (the invention of money). This jogs my memory of a Bengali phrase thakur ghore ke ami kala khaina (a responsible thoughts is at all times suspicious).”
‘Everybody in Bengal knew about this’: Congress on Partha Chatterjee’s arrest
Following the arrest of Partha Chatterjee, Congress chief Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury on Saturday mentioned that “everybody in Bengal knew about this rip-off” and demanded the companies to nab the culprits quickly.
“Everybody in Bengal knew about this (rip-off). After the courtroom`s intervention, investigation companies began performing upon it. We wish culprits to be punished,” the West Bengal Congress chief advised ANI.
CPI(M) chief urges personalities to refuse awards from ‘corrupt’ TMC govt
CPI(M) central committee member Sujan Chakraborty urged Nobel laureate economist Abhijit Vinayak Bandyopadhyay and different eminent personalities to refuse awards from the West Bengal authorities when victims of the varsity jobs rip-off are struggling.
“On the onset of the crude monetary rip-off perpetrated by the TMC, I, a Leftist commoner, want to attraction to you to refuse the so-called Banga Bhusan and Banga Bibhusan award 2022, scheduled to be hosted on July 25,” Chakraborty mentioned.
Hundreds of unemployed youths of the state have been victims of the rip-off, carried out by the ruling dispensation, he alleged.
“They’ve been toiling for justice over the previous couple of years. I attraction to you to face in solidarity with these victims, who for all these years have been ardent followers and followers of your creativity. Could they get to see their icons stand in solidarity with them, at their hour of battle,” Chakraborty mentioned in his attraction.