September 22, 2024

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Ghosts of the previous have come again to hang-out Didi as a former minister publishes an in depth e-book on Saradha Scam

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It appears that the ghosts of the Saradha Chit Fund Scam refuse to go away and rightly so for West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee because the magnitude of the rip-off continues to shock the nation. Now, in a serious jolt to Mamata and TMC, Upen Biswas – a former minister within the state authorities, in a e-book, has written that Saradha Scam is a ‘monumental fraud that overshadows all scams of India’.Former extra CBI director Upen Biswas and a former TMC Minister, in a e-book titled “Dhamma Adhamma”, has made some scathing observations concerning the Saradha Chit Fund Scam, which he believes is greater than another rip-off in India.Describing the Saradha rip-off, Biswas writes, “This is a monumental fraud, which overshadows all other scams of India. Here too, a larger conspiracy was hatched to loot left and right by powerful persons and from poor Sudipta Sen.”The former IPS officer who’s credited for the probe within the fodder rip-off, which landed Lalu Prasad Yadav in jail, was the Backward Class Welfare Minister in Mamata’s first time period, nevertheless, after shedding the 2016 West Bengal Assembly elections, he was accommodated as chairman of West Bengal’s SC, ST and OBC fee – a submit equal in rank to that of a cabinet minister.Biswas, nevertheless, was averse to assigning blame on Mamata Banerjee. “I cannot hold the government or the supreme leader of the ruling party responsible because these are still under investigation.”Furthering his commentary on the Saradha rip-off, he provides, “But we know that a huge scam took place and it did not happen overnight. The Supreme Court, in its first order directing CBI to take over the case, said that the larger conspiracy should be unearthed. I particularly know and understand this expression — larger conspiracy — because I coined this word during the fodder scam. Larger conspiracy involves influential people, mostly politicians and senior officials.”Recently, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) revealed that the Chief Minister’s Relief Fund was used to pay the salaries of staff of Tara which was beneath the scanner for being a part of Saradha Group of corporations. It is estimated {that a} whole of ₹6.21 crore was paid to the Tara TV Employees Welfare Association from the Relief Fund.Read More: Mamata’s TMC govt ran Tara News for 2 years and paid salaries by means of the CM Relief Fund, CBI tells Supreme CourtWhereas in search of the custody of Mamata’s man Friday Rajiv Kumar within the Saradha rip-off, the CBI knowledgeable the Supreme Court that For 23 months, the Chief Minister’s Relief Fund was utilized by Mamata Banerjee-led TMC authorities to pay the salaries of the staff of Tara TV. Between May 2013 and April 2015, the CM Relief fund on the price of ₹27 lakh per thirty days was often paid by Mamata, acknowledged the CBI in its utility.The CBI utility acknowledged, “It is submitted that the said amounts were purportedly given towards salary payments of the employees of the said media company that was under investigation being part of group companies of Saradha Group of Companies.”The examination of former Rajya Sabha MP Kunal Kumar Ghosh by the Enforcement Directorate who’s an accused within the case revealed that Mamata and Sudipta Sen, the promoter of Saradha Group shared an excellent relationship. The utility additionally acknowledged, “It is submitted that the same establishes that the Chief Minister used to talk to Sudipta Sen using the phone of Kunal Kumar Ghosh.”It is pertinent to notice that the CBI revealed that Sen and Ghosh who belongs to the Mamata-led TMC in a span of 1 12 months, had linked over 300 instances over telephone calls.The rot of Saradha rip-off runs very deep and has the potential to utterly derail the TMC marketing campaign for the upcoming West Bengal Assembly elections.