By PTI
KOLKATA: Leader of Opposition in West Bengal Assembly Suvendu Adhikari on Wednesday questioned why Partha Chatterjee is being retained as a minister by Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee regardless of his arrest by the Enforcement Directorate in reference to an alleged college jobs rip-off.
Adhikari met Governor La Ganesan on the Raj Bhavan right here, searching for that Chatterjee, who holds the business, commerce and parliamentary affairs portfolios, be eliminated as minister.
“She (the chief minister) has not taken any step against him despite so much information and proof,” Adhikari instructed reporters after the assembly.
Adhikari, a former minister within the Mamata Banerjee authorities earlier than becoming a member of the BJP in 2020, alleged that it’s “her strategy to show that she is good and others are not”.
The chief minister had mentioned throughout a programme on Monday that anybody discovered responsible in court docket would face motion from the celebration.
Chatterjee and his alleged shut affiliate Arpita Mukherjee have been arrested on July 23 by the ED, which is probing the cash path concerned within the alleged instructor recruitment irregularities at government-sponsored and-aided colleges.
Crores of rupees in money together with different worthwhile objects have been allegedly recovered from the residence of Mukherjee.
PTI couldn’t independently confirm the knowledge.
Chatterjee was the training minister when the college jobs rip-off occurred.
Both have been remanded to the custody of the central company by a particular ED court docket until August 3.
KOLKATA: Leader of Opposition in West Bengal Assembly Suvendu Adhikari on Wednesday questioned why Partha Chatterjee is being retained as a minister by Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee regardless of his arrest by the Enforcement Directorate in reference to an alleged college jobs rip-off.
Adhikari met Governor La Ganesan on the Raj Bhavan right here, searching for that Chatterjee, who holds the business, commerce and parliamentary affairs portfolios, be eliminated as minister.
“She (the chief minister) has not taken any step against him despite so much information and proof,” Adhikari instructed reporters after the assembly.
Adhikari, a former minister within the Mamata Banerjee authorities earlier than becoming a member of the BJP in 2020, alleged that it’s “her strategy to show that she is good and others are not”.
The chief minister had mentioned throughout a programme on Monday that anybody discovered responsible in court docket would face motion from the celebration.
Chatterjee and his alleged shut affiliate Arpita Mukherjee have been arrested on July 23 by the ED, which is probing the cash path concerned within the alleged instructor recruitment irregularities at government-sponsored and-aided colleges.
Crores of rupees in money together with different worthwhile objects have been allegedly recovered from the residence of Mukherjee.
PTI couldn’t independently confirm the knowledge.
Chatterjee was the training minister when the college jobs rip-off occurred.
Both have been remanded to the custody of the central company by a particular ED court docket until August 3.