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  • School jobs rip-off: CBI raids West Bengal varsity Vice-Chancellor’s workplace 

    By PTI

    KOLKATA: The Central Bureau of Investigation on Wednesday raided the workplace of North Bengal University (NBU) Vice-Chancellor Subires Bhattacharyya in Siliguri in reference to its probe into the varsity recruitment rip-off, and sealed his house in Kolkata.

    Bhattacharyya’s title figured within the report of a committee shaped by the Calcutta High Court, that acknowledged that unlawful appointments have been made, on suggestions of the School Service Commission (SSC), in institutes run or aided by the West Bengal authorities previously few years.

    Bhattacharyya was the SSC chairman between 2014 and 2018.

    A 12-member CBI staff raided the NBU vice-chancellor’s workplace in Siliguri, the biggest city within the northern a part of the state.

    “We have conducted raids and seized some documents and confiscated his mobile phone,” a CBI official mentioned. Another staff sealed Bhattacharyya’s house in Bansdroni space of Kolkata. He now lives in Siliguri. Attempts to contact the NBU vice-chancellor failed.

    The report submitted to the excessive courtroom by Justice (retd) R Okay Bag-headed committee mentioned {that a} five-member panel shaped in 2019 by the Education Department, when senior Trinamool Congress chief Partha Chatterjee held the portfolio, for monitoring recruitments of instructing and non-teaching workers didn’t have any authorized validity.

    The central investigating company on August 10 arrested former SSC adviser Dr Shanti Prasad Sinha and its ex-secretary Ashok Kumar Saha, who have been a part of the panel.

    The then training minister Partha Chatterjee and his alleged shut affiliate Arpita Mukherjee have been earlier arrested by the Enforcement Department (ED) which is monitoring the cash path within the rip-off.

    KOLKATA: The Central Bureau of Investigation on Wednesday raided the workplace of North Bengal University (NBU) Vice-Chancellor Subires Bhattacharyya in Siliguri in reference to its probe into the varsity recruitment rip-off, and sealed his house in Kolkata.

    Bhattacharyya’s title figured within the report of a committee shaped by the Calcutta High Court, that acknowledged that unlawful appointments have been made, on suggestions of the School Service Commission (SSC), in institutes run or aided by the West Bengal authorities previously few years.

    Bhattacharyya was the SSC chairman between 2014 and 2018.

    A 12-member CBI staff raided the NBU vice-chancellor’s workplace in Siliguri, the biggest city within the northern a part of the state.

    “We have conducted raids and seized some documents and confiscated his mobile phone,” a CBI official mentioned. Another staff sealed Bhattacharyya’s house in Bansdroni space of Kolkata. He now lives in Siliguri. Attempts to contact the NBU vice-chancellor failed.

    The report submitted to the excessive courtroom by Justice (retd) R Okay Bag-headed committee mentioned {that a} five-member panel shaped in 2019 by the Education Department, when senior Trinamool Congress chief Partha Chatterjee held the portfolio, for monitoring recruitments of instructing and non-teaching workers didn’t have any authorized validity.

    The central investigating company on August 10 arrested former SSC adviser Dr Shanti Prasad Sinha and its ex-secretary Ashok Kumar Saha, who have been a part of the panel.

    The then training minister Partha Chatterjee and his alleged shut affiliate Arpita Mukherjee have been earlier arrested by the Enforcement Department (ED) which is monitoring the cash path within the rip-off.

  • Scams fallout: Trinamool to give attention to sustaining clear picture, to go all out towards BJP

    By PTI

    NEW DELHI: The “democracy-is-dead” chorus is unlikely to be efficient in cornering the Narendra Modi dispensation, Trinamool Congress sources stated on Thursday and added the get together is drawing a listing of 12 guarantees that the BJP made however did not fulfil for its campaign towards the federal government.

    Among the dozen guarantees that the Mamata Banerjee-led get together plans to take as much as nook the BJP authorities are the doubling of farmers’ earnings by 2022 and homes for all.

    “We have kept it simple. We want to remind the Modi government of the promises it made to the people and also show them how they have failed,” TMC MP Derek O’Brien stated.

    TMC sources stated it could be not possible to place the federal government on the backfoot via the “democracy is dead” platform and as a substitute, the main focus must be on questioning it on the guarantees it made to most of the people however did not implement on floor.

    Though the TMC sources didn’t point out the Congress, the goal was obvious.

    ALSO READ | SSC rip-off: HC extends former Bengal minister Partha Chatterjee’s judicial remand by 14 days

    Earlier this month, senior Congress chief Rahul Gandhi had alleged India is witnessing the “death of democracy” and anyone who raises folks’s points and stands towards the onset of dictatorship is “viciously attacked” and put in jail.

    The Trinamool Congress stated the federal government promised to rid the nation of black cash however in actuality, it claimed, 99.3 per cent of such cash stashed overseas got here again to the nation with a most of it returning to Gujarat.

    It additionally alleged the federal government underneath Prime Minister Narendra Modi has offered Rs 2.1 lakh crore value of PSUs and did not deposit the promised Rs 15 lakh in financial institution accounts of the poor.

    It has as a substitute squandered away Rs 6.2 trillion in unhealthy loans and Rs 1.22 lakh crore in financial institution frauds.

    The get together additionally plans to boost the problem of the bullet prepare mission, elevating questions on land acquisition, and requested how the Railways amassed a debt of Rs 7 lakh crore.

    The failure of the federal government underneath the Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana additionally can be highlighted by the get together, the sources stated.

    The TMC desires to achieve some momentum earlier than the subsequent session of Parliament, which is anticipated in November, and can go all out towards the federal government, they stated.

    Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday directed all her ministers to cease utilizing pilot automobiles with crimson beacon anyplace within the state, besides highways, and suggested them to be very cautious whereas signing any official doc, a senior official right here stated.

    The contemporary directives from Banerjee are being seen as an try to rebuild the picture of her authorities which obtained back-to-back jolts following the arrests of senior leaders Partha Chatterjee and Anubrata Mondal.

    Addressing the primary assembly of the state cabinet, following the current reshuffle, Banerjee additionally said that her division would repair separate duties for the ministers of state, who until date had “very little responsibilities” to hold out.

    ALSO READ | TET row: HC recollects order asking Trinamool chief’s daughter, 5 others to look earlier than it

    “The chief minister at Thursday’s meeting asked her ministers to stop using pilot cars. Ministers can be escorted by pilot cars with red beacon at times when they are travelling on highways, but not anywhere else in the state,” the bureaucrat informed PTI after the assembly.

    “She also advised cabinet ministers to go through any documents thoroughly before signing them,” he stated.

    At Thursday’s assembly, Banerjee was learnt to have pulled up state forest minister Jyotipriya Mallick, stating that she had been receiving a number of complaints towards him.

    She directed Mallick to keep up a “clean image”.

    Partha Chatterjee, who held the business portfolio, was relieved of his ministerial duties and suspended from the TMC following his arrest by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) final month in reference to the probe into a college recruitment rip-off.

    Notably, Thursday’s was the primary cabinet assembly after Chatterjee’s removing from the ministry.

    NEW DELHI: The “democracy-is-dead” chorus is unlikely to be efficient in cornering the Narendra Modi dispensation, Trinamool Congress sources stated on Thursday and added the get together is drawing a listing of 12 guarantees that the BJP made however did not fulfil for its campaign towards the federal government.

    Among the dozen guarantees that the Mamata Banerjee-led get together plans to take as much as nook the BJP authorities are the doubling of farmers’ earnings by 2022 and homes for all.

    “We have kept it simple. We want to remind the Modi government of the promises it made to the people and also show them how they have failed,” TMC MP Derek O’Brien stated.

    TMC sources stated it could be not possible to place the federal government on the backfoot via the “democracy is dead” platform and as a substitute, the main focus must be on questioning it on the guarantees it made to most of the people however did not implement on floor.

    Though the TMC sources didn’t point out the Congress, the goal was obvious.

    ALSO READ | SSC rip-off: HC extends former Bengal minister Partha Chatterjee’s judicial remand by 14 days

    Earlier this month, senior Congress chief Rahul Gandhi had alleged India is witnessing the “death of democracy” and anyone who raises folks’s points and stands towards the onset of dictatorship is “viciously attacked” and put in jail.

    The Trinamool Congress stated the federal government promised to rid the nation of black cash however in actuality, it claimed, 99.3 per cent of such cash stashed overseas got here again to the nation with a most of it returning to Gujarat.

    It additionally alleged the federal government underneath Prime Minister Narendra Modi has offered Rs 2.1 lakh crore value of PSUs and did not deposit the promised Rs 15 lakh in financial institution accounts of the poor.

    It has as a substitute squandered away Rs 6.2 trillion in unhealthy loans and Rs 1.22 lakh crore in financial institution frauds.

    The get together additionally plans to boost the problem of the bullet prepare mission, elevating questions on land acquisition, and requested how the Railways amassed a debt of Rs 7 lakh crore.

    The failure of the federal government underneath the Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana additionally can be highlighted by the get together, the sources stated.

    The TMC desires to achieve some momentum earlier than the subsequent session of Parliament, which is anticipated in November, and can go all out towards the federal government, they stated.

    Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday directed all her ministers to cease utilizing pilot automobiles with crimson beacon anyplace within the state, besides highways, and suggested them to be very cautious whereas signing any official doc, a senior official right here stated.

    The contemporary directives from Banerjee are being seen as an try to rebuild the picture of her authorities which obtained back-to-back jolts following the arrests of senior leaders Partha Chatterjee and Anubrata Mondal.

    Addressing the primary assembly of the state cabinet, following the current reshuffle, Banerjee additionally said that her division would repair separate duties for the ministers of state, who until date had “very little responsibilities” to hold out.

    ALSO READ | TET row: HC recollects order asking Trinamool chief’s daughter, 5 others to look earlier than it

    “The chief minister at Thursday’s meeting asked her ministers to stop using pilot cars. Ministers can be escorted by pilot cars with red beacon at times when they are travelling on highways, but not anywhere else in the state,” the bureaucrat informed PTI after the assembly.

    “She also advised cabinet ministers to go through any documents thoroughly before signing them,” he stated.

    At Thursday’s assembly, Banerjee was learnt to have pulled up state forest minister Jyotipriya Mallick, stating that she had been receiving a number of complaints towards him.

    She directed Mallick to keep up a “clean image”.

    Partha Chatterjee, who held the business portfolio, was relieved of his ministerial duties and suspended from the TMC following his arrest by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) final month in reference to the probe into a college recruitment rip-off.

    Notably, Thursday’s was the primary cabinet assembly after Chatterjee’s removing from the ministry.

  • SSC rip-off: HC extends former Bengal minister Partha Chatterjee’s judicial remand by 14 days

    By PTI

    KOLKATA: A particular courtroom on Thursday prolonged the judicial remand of former West Bengal minister Partha Chatterjee and his alleged shut aide Arpita Mukherjee, each arrested by the Enforcement Directorate within the faculty jobs rip-off, by 14 extra days.

    After being in ED custody until August 5 following their arrest on July 23, Chatterjee and Mukherjee had been despatched to judicial remand by the PMLA (Prevention of Money Laundering Act) courtroom right here.

    Rejecting a bail prayer of the previous minister, Judge Jibon Kumar Sadhu granted 14 days’ judicial remand of the 2 accused on a prayer by the ED until August 31.

    On a prayer by the central investigating company, the courtroom granted permission to the ED to additional interrogate them within the correctional properties they’re lodged in.

    Mukherjee didn’t make any bail prayer earlier than the courtroom on Thursday.

    Chatterjee and Mukherjee had been arrested by the ED on July 23 in reference to its probe into the cash path in unlawful appointments of instructing and non-teaching employees in West Bengal government-sponsored and -aided faculties.

    The ED has claimed to have recovered Rs 49.80 crore, jewelry and gold bars from flats owned by Mukherjee, Chatterjee’s alleged shut affiliate, and paperwork of properties and an organization in joint holdings.

    Chatterjee has been relieved of his ministerial duties by the Mamata Banerjee authorities, whereas the Trinamool Congress has additionally eliminated him from all posts he held within the occasion following his arrest.

    Claiming that 70-year-old Chatterjee suffers from power diseases and wishes lively medical intervention, his lawyer prayed for his bail on any situation.

    The public prosecutor showing for the ED claimed that Chatterjee and Mukherjee are concerned in a legal conspiracy for illegally giving jobs for the put up of lecturers and cash recovered from her flats had been proceeds of crime.

    He additionally claimed that seized paperwork reveal an in depth affiliation of Mukherjee with relations of the previous minister by means of an organization named Ananta Texfab Pvt Ltd and the deal with of it’s a flat at Belghoria within the northern outskirts of Kolkata, from the place money amounting to Rs 27.90 crore was seized.

    It was alleged that Chatterjee and Mukherjee entered right into a partnership of equal share vide a partnership deed in November 2012 to type an organization named APA Utility Services.

    Opposing the bail prayer, the ED counsel submitted that Chatterjee is an influential particular person as he’s a sitting MLA and will affect witnesses within the case.

    Observing that the allegations towards the accused are very severe, the choose rejected Chatterjee’s bail prayer.

    KOLKATA: A particular courtroom on Thursday prolonged the judicial remand of former West Bengal minister Partha Chatterjee and his alleged shut aide Arpita Mukherjee, each arrested by the Enforcement Directorate within the faculty jobs rip-off, by 14 extra days.

    After being in ED custody until August 5 following their arrest on July 23, Chatterjee and Mukherjee had been despatched to judicial remand by the PMLA (Prevention of Money Laundering Act) courtroom right here.

    Rejecting a bail prayer of the previous minister, Judge Jibon Kumar Sadhu granted 14 days’ judicial remand of the 2 accused on a prayer by the ED until August 31.

    On a prayer by the central investigating company, the courtroom granted permission to the ED to additional interrogate them within the correctional properties they’re lodged in.

    Mukherjee didn’t make any bail prayer earlier than the courtroom on Thursday.

    Chatterjee and Mukherjee had been arrested by the ED on July 23 in reference to its probe into the cash path in unlawful appointments of instructing and non-teaching employees in West Bengal government-sponsored and -aided faculties.

    The ED has claimed to have recovered Rs 49.80 crore, jewelry and gold bars from flats owned by Mukherjee, Chatterjee’s alleged shut affiliate, and paperwork of properties and an organization in joint holdings.

    Chatterjee has been relieved of his ministerial duties by the Mamata Banerjee authorities, whereas the Trinamool Congress has additionally eliminated him from all posts he held within the occasion following his arrest.

    Claiming that 70-year-old Chatterjee suffers from power diseases and wishes lively medical intervention, his lawyer prayed for his bail on any situation.

    The public prosecutor showing for the ED claimed that Chatterjee and Mukherjee are concerned in a legal conspiracy for illegally giving jobs for the put up of lecturers and cash recovered from her flats had been proceeds of crime.

    He additionally claimed that seized paperwork reveal an in depth affiliation of Mukherjee with relations of the previous minister by means of an organization named Ananta Texfab Pvt Ltd and the deal with of it’s a flat at Belghoria within the northern outskirts of Kolkata, from the place money amounting to Rs 27.90 crore was seized.

    It was alleged that Chatterjee and Mukherjee entered right into a partnership of equal share vide a partnership deed in November 2012 to type an organization named APA Utility Services.

    Opposing the bail prayer, the ED counsel submitted that Chatterjee is an influential particular person as he’s a sitting MLA and will affect witnesses within the case.

    Observing that the allegations towards the accused are very severe, the choose rejected Chatterjee’s bail prayer.

  • Mamata Banerjee meets PM Modi, seeks pressing launch of Bengal’s dues

    Express News Service

    KOLKATA: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, who’s on a four-day Delhi go to, met Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday and positioned a listing of Rs 100968 crore claiming that the cash the Centre owes to the state authorities in GST arrears and different segments associated to the central authorities schemes, sources within the Trinamool Congress stated.

    In the 45-minute assembly, the CM additionally raised the problem of utilizing the central businesses that are summoning Trinamool Congress functionaries.

    Taking a jibe at Mamata-Modi assembly, the CPI(M) and Congress described it as part of her “setting” plan to settle an underneath the desk take care of the BJP.

    Mamata’s Delhi go to and assembly with Modi is claimed to be politically important within the backdrop of the arrest of Partha Chatterjee, former commerce and industries minister in Bengal cabinet who was third-in-command within the TMC, by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in alleged college recruitment rip-off in the course of the politician’s tenure as schooling minister.

    “In the meeting, the CM mentioned about Rs 90,000 crore which is the state government’s GST share and lying due with the Centre. She said unless the state gets its share, it will be difficult to clear the dues of the state government employees,” stated a senior TMC chief.

    The chief stated Mamata additionally demanded Rs 5,561 crore which the Centre owes to Bengal authorities as labourer cost underneath 100-day job scheme. “She also mentioned about Rs 9,329 crore which the state is yet to get from the central government under the housing scheme for the poor people,” he added.

    The state authorities determined to carry launch of funds underneath 100-day job scheme since December final yr citing anomalies discovered by the Centre’s monitoring groups which visited Bengal on two events. The Centre can be but to launch the labour funds for Bengal in 2022-23 fiscal.       

    On a number of event, Mamata raised the problem of financial blockade which the Centre is finishing up by not clearing the fund meant for 100-day job scheme and the state’s GST arrears. She had written a quantity letters to to the Prime Minister requesting him to clear the dues.

    CPI(M)’s central committee member Sujan Chakrabarty described the assembly a mere eye-wash. “It is clear that she flew to Delhi to settle a deal with the BJP to protect her corrupt party leaders from the central agencies. The ED already interrogated her nephew Abhishek Banerjee on two occasions in connection with a money laundering case linked to coal smuggling being probed by the CBI,” he stated.

    Congress state president Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury echoed Chakrabarty saying after Chatterjee’s arrest, Bengal CM landed in Delhi to guard her personal males who’re going through corruption fees.

    KOLKATA: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, who’s on a four-day Delhi go to, met Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday and positioned a listing of Rs 100968 crore claiming that the cash the Centre owes to the state authorities in GST arrears and different segments associated to the central authorities schemes, sources within the Trinamool Congress stated.

    In the 45-minute assembly, the CM additionally raised the problem of utilizing the central businesses that are summoning Trinamool Congress functionaries.

    Taking a jibe at Mamata-Modi assembly, the CPI(M) and Congress described it as part of her “setting” plan to settle an underneath the desk take care of the BJP.

    Mamata’s Delhi go to and assembly with Modi is claimed to be politically important within the backdrop of the arrest of Partha Chatterjee, former commerce and industries minister in Bengal cabinet who was third-in-command within the TMC, by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in alleged college recruitment rip-off in the course of the politician’s tenure as schooling minister.

    “In the meeting, the CM mentioned about Rs 90,000 crore which is the state government’s GST share and lying due with the Centre. She said unless the state gets its share, it will be difficult to clear the dues of the state government employees,” stated a senior TMC chief.

    The chief stated Mamata additionally demanded Rs 5,561 crore which the Centre owes to Bengal authorities as labourer cost underneath 100-day job scheme. “She also mentioned about Rs 9,329 crore which the state is yet to get from the central government under the housing scheme for the poor people,” he added.

    The state authorities determined to carry launch of funds underneath 100-day job scheme since December final yr citing anomalies discovered by the Centre’s monitoring groups which visited Bengal on two events. The Centre can be but to launch the labour funds for Bengal in 2022-23 fiscal.       

    On a number of event, Mamata raised the problem of financial blockade which the Centre is finishing up by not clearing the fund meant for 100-day job scheme and the state’s GST arrears. She had written a quantity letters to to the Prime Minister requesting him to clear the dues.

    CPI(M)’s central committee member Sujan Chakrabarty described the assembly a mere eye-wash. “It is clear that she flew to Delhi to settle a deal with the BJP to protect her corrupt party leaders from the central agencies. The ED already interrogated her nephew Abhishek Banerjee on two occasions in connection with a money laundering case linked to coal smuggling being probed by the CBI,” he stated.

    Congress state president Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury echoed Chakrabarty saying after Chatterjee’s arrest, Bengal CM landed in Delhi to guard her personal males who’re going through corruption fees.

  • ‘Money recovered by ED doesn’t belong to me’: Partha Chatterjee as soon as once more claims ‘conspiracy’ towards him

    By PTI

    KOLKATA: Arrested Bengal minister Partha Chatterjee, who’s on the centre of a multi-crore college jobs rip-off, on Sunday claimed that the cash recovered throughout Enforcement Directorate raids doesn’t belong to him, and time will inform who’re “conspiring” towards him.

    As he deboarded a automobile after being taken to ESI Hospital at Joka for a medical check-up, and was approached by reporters with questions relating to the rip-off, Chatterjee mentioned, “The money (recovered) is not mine.”

    Asked additional if anyone was conspiring towards him, he mentioned: “You will get to know when the time comes.”

    Chatterjee had on Friday asserted that he was a sufferer of a conspiracy and expressed unhappiness over the Trinamool Congress’ determination to droop him.

    “This decision (to suspend me) could influence an impartial probe,” he had mentioned.

    About the transfer to take away him from the ministry, Chatterjee, as soon as thought-about a detailed confidante of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, mentioned, “Her (Banerjee’s) decision is right.”

    Chatterjee, 69, was relieved of his duties as minister-in-charge of varied departments and suspended from the TMC on Thursday.

    He was additionally faraway from all social gathering posts.

    One of his shut aides, Arpita Mukherjee, has additionally been arrested by the ED after crores of rupees in money had been seized from her residences in components of town.

    The TMC management has taken exception to his feedback, contending that Chatterjee was himself answerable for his destiny.

    “Why was he silent for the last few days after his arrest? He has every right to approach the court and prove his innocence. The party has nothing to do with this scam,” TMC state basic secretary Kunal Ghosh had mentioned on Thursday.

    The CBI, as directed by Calcutta High Court, is probing the alleged irregularities within the recruitment of Group-C and -D employees, in addition to academics in government-sponsored and -aided faculties on the suggestions of the West Bengal School Service Commission.

    The ED is trying into the cash path concerned within the rip-off.

    KOLKATA: Arrested Bengal minister Partha Chatterjee, who’s on the centre of a multi-crore college jobs rip-off, on Sunday claimed that the cash recovered throughout Enforcement Directorate raids doesn’t belong to him, and time will inform who’re “conspiring” towards him.

    As he deboarded a automobile after being taken to ESI Hospital at Joka for a medical check-up, and was approached by reporters with questions relating to the rip-off, Chatterjee mentioned, “The money (recovered) is not mine.”

    Asked additional if anyone was conspiring towards him, he mentioned: “You will get to know when the time comes.”

    Chatterjee had on Friday asserted that he was a sufferer of a conspiracy and expressed unhappiness over the Trinamool Congress’ determination to droop him.

    “This decision (to suspend me) could influence an impartial probe,” he had mentioned.

    About the transfer to take away him from the ministry, Chatterjee, as soon as thought-about a detailed confidante of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, mentioned, “Her (Banerjee’s) decision is right.”

    Chatterjee, 69, was relieved of his duties as minister-in-charge of varied departments and suspended from the TMC on Thursday.

    He was additionally faraway from all social gathering posts.

    One of his shut aides, Arpita Mukherjee, has additionally been arrested by the ED after crores of rupees in money had been seized from her residences in components of town.

    The TMC management has taken exception to his feedback, contending that Chatterjee was himself answerable for his destiny.

    “Why was he silent for the last few days after his arrest? He has every right to approach the court and prove his innocence. The party has nothing to do with this scam,” TMC state basic secretary Kunal Ghosh had mentioned on Thursday.

    The CBI, as directed by Calcutta High Court, is probing the alleged irregularities within the recruitment of Group-C and -D employees, in addition to academics in government-sponsored and -aided faculties on the suggestions of the West Bengal School Service Commission.

    The ED is trying into the cash path concerned within the rip-off.

  • ‘Partha Chatterjee used to take Arpita Mukherjee for joyrides in high-end vehicles, have events’: Investigators

    Other financial institution accounts, linked to a number of 'shell corporations' allegedly operated by Mukherjee, are additionally beneath the ED's scanner.

  • ‘Anyone confirmed responsible should be punished, however media trials unacceptable’: Mamata on SSC rip-off

    By PTI

    KOLKATA: Days after senior West Bengal minister Partha Chatterjee was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate in reference to the varsity recruitment rip-off, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday slammed the media for allegedly launching a “malicious campaign” towards her celebration.

    Banerjee, additionally the Trinamool Congress supremo, mentioned that anybody confirmed responsible by the courtroom should be punished, however probe “agencies must not be used to malign political parties”.

    “”When you run a big institution, there can be mistakes. Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose once said that people have the right to make blunders. If anyone has committed any mistake, and it is proven legally, he or she must be punished. “But I am against any malicious media campaign. The media is playing the role of kangaroo (court). A senior judge also said that recently,” she mentioned.

    Addressing a programme of personal agency Titagarh Wagons at Uttarpara in Hooghly district, Banerjee lashed out at a bit of the media for allegedly attempting to behave like courts and pronounce judgments even earlier than an individual is legally confirmed responsible.

    “The Chief Justice of India just lately identified that the media is taking part in the function of kangaroo courts.

    They don’t need any growth to occur in Bengal and solely wish to defame our state,” she mentioned.

    Banerjee was referring to current feedback by Chief Justice of India NV Ramana that agenda-driven debates and kangaroo courts being run by the media are detrimental to the well being of democracy.

    Without elaborating, the TMC supremo claimed that she is aware of these journalists who’ve taken “undue advantages”.

    About ED raids carried out on July 22 on the homes of round a dozen individuals, together with Chatterjee and one other minister, in reference to its investigation into the varsity jobs rip-off, Banerjee questioned what prompted the central company to do it only a day after the TMC’s mega rally in Kolkata.

    She mentioned, “”They (BJP) were afraid after seeing the turnout (in the rally). They (ED) came in the dead of night and the wee hours. Did they find everything in one day?” Banerjee said she does not have any problem with investigative agencies doing their job. But I will not tolerate ruining the perception of any political party in the name of an investigation, especially by those who have looted the country. This is not a good sign for our country,” she mentioned.

    The TMC chief mentioned she is towards central businesses being utilized by the BJP to malign opposition events.

    Banerjee claimed that the BJP won’t return to energy within the 2024 Lok Sabha election.

    “If I were not confident, I would not have said this. But what is the calculation, where will the seats come from, and how will they come? I don’t know. (However), even astrologers are predicting the BJP’s downfall,” she mentioned.

    Banerjee mentioned the extent of “intolerance and cruelty” towards the opposition has surpassed that of the British period.

    In an obvious reference to the suspension of 19 opposition members from Rajya Sabha on Tuesday, she mentioned, “These days, if you protest against something, you get suspended. If people raise their voices, they are either suspended or slapped with court cases.”

    She additionally claimed that businessmen and opposition leaders had been additionally being “threatened by agencies at the behest of the ruling BJP” on the Centre.

    The chief minister additionally cautioned the saffron camp that if it tries to dislodge the West Bengal authorities “because it did in Maharashtra”, the celebration would get a befitting reply.

    After dislodging the federal government in Maharashtra, the BJP has been attempting to hold out comparable operations in Jharkhand and different states, together with West Bengal.

    “Let me remind them that this is the land of the Royal Bengal Tiger; if they try to interfere, a befitting reply will follow. I warn them not to think about Bengal,” the TMC boss added.

    KOLKATA: Days after senior West Bengal minister Partha Chatterjee was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate in reference to the varsity recruitment rip-off, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday slammed the media for allegedly launching a “malicious campaign” towards her celebration.

    Banerjee, additionally the Trinamool Congress supremo, mentioned that anybody confirmed responsible by the courtroom should be punished, however probe “agencies must not be used to malign political parties”.

    “”When you run a big institution, there can be mistakes. Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose once said that people have the right to make blunders. If anyone has committed any mistake, and it is proven legally, he or she must be punished. “But I am against any malicious media campaign. The media is playing the role of kangaroo (court). A senior judge also said that recently,” she mentioned.

    Addressing a programme of personal agency Titagarh Wagons at Uttarpara in Hooghly district, Banerjee lashed out at a bit of the media for allegedly attempting to behave like courts and pronounce judgments even earlier than an individual is legally confirmed responsible.

    “The Chief Justice of India just lately identified that the media is taking part in the function of kangaroo courts.

    They don’t need any growth to occur in Bengal and solely wish to defame our state,” she mentioned.

    Banerjee was referring to current feedback by Chief Justice of India NV Ramana that agenda-driven debates and kangaroo courts being run by the media are detrimental to the well being of democracy.

    Without elaborating, the TMC supremo claimed that she is aware of these journalists who’ve taken “undue advantages”.

    About ED raids carried out on July 22 on the homes of round a dozen individuals, together with Chatterjee and one other minister, in reference to its investigation into the varsity jobs rip-off, Banerjee questioned what prompted the central company to do it only a day after the TMC’s mega rally in Kolkata.

    She mentioned, “”They (BJP) were afraid after seeing the turnout (in the rally). They (ED) came in the dead of night and the wee hours. Did they find everything in one day?” Banerjee said she does not have any problem with investigative agencies doing their job. But I will not tolerate ruining the perception of any political party in the name of an investigation, especially by those who have looted the country. This is not a good sign for our country,” she mentioned.

    The TMC chief mentioned she is towards central businesses being utilized by the BJP to malign opposition events.

    Banerjee claimed that the BJP won’t return to energy within the 2024 Lok Sabha election.

    “If I were not confident, I would not have said this. But what is the calculation, where will the seats come from, and how will they come? I don’t know. (However), even astrologers are predicting the BJP’s downfall,” she mentioned.

    Banerjee mentioned the extent of “intolerance and cruelty” towards the opposition has surpassed that of the British period.

    In an obvious reference to the suspension of 19 opposition members from Rajya Sabha on Tuesday, she mentioned, “These days, if you protest against something, you get suspended. If people raise their voices, they are either suspended or slapped with court cases.”

    She additionally claimed that businessmen and opposition leaders had been additionally being “threatened by agencies at the behest of the ruling BJP” on the Centre.

    The chief minister additionally cautioned the saffron camp that if it tries to dislodge the West Bengal authorities “because it did in Maharashtra”, the celebration would get a befitting reply.

    After dislodging the federal government in Maharashtra, the BJP has been attempting to hold out comparable operations in Jharkhand and different states, together with West Bengal.

    “Let me remind them that this is the land of the Royal Bengal Tiger; if they try to interfere, a befitting reply will follow. I warn them not to think about Bengal,” the TMC boss added.

  • SSC rip-off: Why is arrested minister being retained in Mamata Cabinet, asks BJP’s Suvendu

    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.

  • SSC rip-off: BJP is unsuitable if it thinks it could possibly break my celebration utilizing businesses, says CM Mamata

    By PTI

    KOLKATA: If anybody is discovered responsible of wrongdoing, he should be punished, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee mentioned on Monday, days after her cabinet colleague Partha Chatterjee was arrested within the SSC rip-off by the Enforcement Directorate (ED).

    Addressing an award operate of the state authorities right here, Banerjee slammed the opposition for a “malicious campaign” launched in opposition to her, asserting that she doesn’t assist corruption.

    “We have full faith in the judiciary. There has to be a time frame within which the truth and the court’s verdict must be out. If anyone is proven guilty, then he or she must be punished. The party, too, will take action. But, I condemn the malicious campaign against me,” she mentioned.

    Referring to the video shared by the BJP, by which she was seen interacting with Arpita Mukherjee from whose home Rs 22 crore in money was discovered, the chief minister mentioned the Trinamool Congress has no hyperlinks along with her.

    “The party has no relation with that lady, neither do I know her. I attend several programmes, if someone gets clicked with me, is it my fault?” she mentioned.

    Hitting out on the BJP, Banerjee mentioned that if the celebration thinks that it could possibly break the Trinamool Congress through the use of central probe businesses then it’s unsuitable.

    “It has to be seen whether it (the investigation) is a trap to malign my party and me. I neither support corruption nor allow it to breed,” she mentioned.

    Chatterjee, the West Bengal Industry and Commerce Minister, was arrested by the ED on Saturday in reference to its investigation into the irregularities within the recruitment drives by the School Service Commission (SSC), which allegedly occurred when he was the state’s training minister.

    Mukherjee, claimed to be his shut aide, was additionally arrested by the company after an enormous amount of money was discovered at her south Kolkata condominium.

    KOLKATA: If anybody is discovered responsible of wrongdoing, he should be punished, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee mentioned on Monday, days after her cabinet colleague Partha Chatterjee was arrested within the SSC rip-off by the Enforcement Directorate (ED).

    Addressing an award operate of the state authorities right here, Banerjee slammed the opposition for a “malicious campaign” launched in opposition to her, asserting that she doesn’t assist corruption.

    “We have full faith in the judiciary. There has to be a time frame within which the truth and the court’s verdict must be out. If anyone is proven guilty, then he or she must be punished. The party, too, will take action. But, I condemn the malicious campaign against me,” she mentioned.

    Referring to the video shared by the BJP, by which she was seen interacting with Arpita Mukherjee from whose home Rs 22 crore in money was discovered, the chief minister mentioned the Trinamool Congress has no hyperlinks along with her.

    “The party has no relation with that lady, neither do I know her. I attend several programmes, if someone gets clicked with me, is it my fault?” she mentioned.

    Hitting out on the BJP, Banerjee mentioned that if the celebration thinks that it could possibly break the Trinamool Congress through the use of central probe businesses then it’s unsuitable.

    “It has to be seen whether it (the investigation) is a trap to malign my party and me. I neither support corruption nor allow it to breed,” she mentioned.

    Chatterjee, the West Bengal Industry and Commerce Minister, was arrested by the ED on Saturday in reference to its investigation into the irregularities within the recruitment drives by the School Service Commission (SSC), which allegedly occurred when he was the state’s training minister.

    Mukherjee, claimed to be his shut aide, was additionally arrested by the company after an enormous amount of money was discovered at her south Kolkata condominium.

  • SSC rip-off: Arrested Bengal minister Partha Chatterjee admitted to AIIMS, Bhubaneswar

    By PTI

    BHUBANESHWAR/KOLKATA: West Bengal minister Partha Chatterjee, arrested in reference to an alleged faculty jobs rip-off, was on Monday taken to Odisha in an air ambulance by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) and admitted to AIIMS, Bhubaneswar as per course of the Calcutta High Court, an official stated.

    The court docket on July 24 directed the ED, which had arrested Chatterjee in reference to its probe into the rip-off, to take him to the well being facility by an air ambulance.

    “The Bengal minister has been admitted to the private ward after his arrival here. After a screening of his health condition, the minister was taken to a special cabin,” an official of the premier medical facility advised PTI.

    Chatterjee was taken to Bhubaneswar in an air ambulance, an ED official stated.

    He added that two counsels representing Chatterjee additionally travelled to the Odisha capital.

    ALSO READ | SSC rip-off: Unease in Trinamool over Mamata’s title showing in Partha’s arrest memo

    Earlier within the day, the Bengal minister was taken to the Kolkata airport in an ambulance from the state-run SSKM hospital, the place he was present process remedy.

    A inexperienced hall was created in order that he might attain the airport in round half-hour, a Kolkata Police official stated.

    Chatterjee, who’s presently the industries and parliamentary affairs minister of the Mamata Banerjee authorities, was remanded to ED custody until Monday by a decrease court docket in Kolkata.

    He was the schooling minister when the alleged instructor recruitment rip-off happened at West Bengal government-run and-aided faculties.

    The Calcutta HC directed that the minister, be produced earlier than a particular ED court docket in Kolkata by means of digital mode at 4 PM on Monday.

    BHUBANESHWAR/KOLKATA: West Bengal minister Partha Chatterjee, arrested in reference to an alleged faculty jobs rip-off, was on Monday taken to Odisha in an air ambulance by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) and admitted to AIIMS, Bhubaneswar as per course of the Calcutta High Court, an official stated.

    The court docket on July 24 directed the ED, which had arrested Chatterjee in reference to its probe into the rip-off, to take him to the well being facility by an air ambulance.

    “The Bengal minister has been admitted to the private ward after his arrival here. After a screening of his health condition, the minister was taken to a special cabin,” an official of the premier medical facility advised PTI.

    Chatterjee was taken to Bhubaneswar in an air ambulance, an ED official stated.

    He added that two counsels representing Chatterjee additionally travelled to the Odisha capital.

    ALSO READ | SSC rip-off: Unease in Trinamool over Mamata’s title showing in Partha’s arrest memo

    Earlier within the day, the Bengal minister was taken to the Kolkata airport in an ambulance from the state-run SSKM hospital, the place he was present process remedy.

    A inexperienced hall was created in order that he might attain the airport in round half-hour, a Kolkata Police official stated.

    Chatterjee, who’s presently the industries and parliamentary affairs minister of the Mamata Banerjee authorities, was remanded to ED custody until Monday by a decrease court docket in Kolkata.

    He was the schooling minister when the alleged instructor recruitment rip-off happened at West Bengal government-run and-aided faculties.

    The Calcutta HC directed that the minister, be produced earlier than a particular ED court docket in Kolkata by means of digital mode at 4 PM on Monday.