September 23, 2024

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Is TMC a large Ponzi scheme? Many TMC leaders have grown their wealth 100s of occasions in the previous few years

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The first part of the West Bengal meeting elections is scheduled to be held on March 27. The election season has already seen a bunch of controversies however the newest controversy to make the waves is the astronomical rise within the wealth fortunes of the TMC leaders in the previous few years. According to a report launched by ballot rights group Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR), TMC candidate and sitting MLA from Ranibandh (ST) constituency in Bankura district, Jyotsna Mandi noticed a whopping 1985.68 per cent rise in her wealth within the final 5 years, which rivals even the largest billionaires of the world.According to an affidavit filed by Mandi to the Election Commission, her complete property grew from Rs 1,96,633 in 2016 to Rs 41,01,144 in 2021, a rise of Rs 39,04,511. However, Mandi will not be the one TMC candidate who partook in TMC’s grand Ponzi scheme and made large bucks. Assets of one other TMC sitting MLA from Keshiary (ST) constituency in Paschim Medinipur district, Paresh Murmu, additionally rose by 246.34 per cent. In 2016, his property had been price Rs 11,57,926 and now these are valued at Rs 40,10,329, ADR in its survey discovered.It has allegedly been a development amongst the ruling TMC, the place the state leaders have minted some severe cash throughout their tenure as office-bearers. While Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s present affidavit has not been analysed by ADR, one can check out the 2016 knowledge and infer that Didi has led from the entrance on this Ponzi scheme.Mamata’s property in September 2011, when she contested a by-election from the Bhabhanipur Assembly constituency, was Rs. 15,84,189. However, through the 2016 meeting elections, the TMC supremo declared in her affidavit that her movable property had inflated as much as Rs 30,45,012 – which means she had doubled her asset worth.Read extra: Credit Card with Rs. 10 Lakh restrict for college kids, Mamata’s grand plan to win BengalWhile Jyotsana Mandi is taking the accolades within the 12 months 2021 for having recorded the very best share improve in wealth – it was one other TMC candidate within the earlier meeting elections who took comparable honours.The present Minister of Technical Education within the cabinet of Mamata and an MLA from the Dhaniakhali constituency, Ashima Patra had recorded the very best soar in property worth from 2011 to 2016 by way of share with a 3,185% soar which places the numbers of Mandi and Murmu to disgrace.Such has been the turbulent five-year rule of TMC and Mamata that West Bengal has plunged right into a state of deep disaster with routine discussions of evoking President’s rule within the state going down within the mainstream media. While the general public bears the brunt of Mamata’s lackadaisical strategy, her MLAs proceed to rake within the moolah by fleecing the exchequer.