International Desk: Several cases of corruption against Trinamool leaders are being investigated.Mamata Banerjee gave a message to the party leaders and workers about this in the organizational meeting. German media outlet Deutsche Welle said in a report:
The CBI and ED are now very active against the ruling party in West Bengal. In a series of corruption cases, investigations are going on against the leaders of the party. Some leaders are already in jail in cases of cow-coal smuggling from corrupt school recruitment.
Former state education minister Partha Chatterjee was jailed for recruitment corruption. Trinamool MLA Manik Bhattacharya, former president of the Board of Primary Education, is also in jail. The central agency has arrested two youth leaders of the ruling party in this case. Trinamool Birbhum district president Anuvrata Mondal is now in ED custody in Delhi in the cow smuggling case. Meanwhile, Abhishek Banerjee, the second-most important leader of the party, is also under investigation by the central agency.
More than Rs 50 crore was recovered from the house of an actress close to Perth. According to the investigators, many properties of Manik have been found. The same applies to Anuvrata. The central agency has obtained information related to many accounts and illegal transactions involving youth leaders Kuntal Ghosh and Shantanu Banerjee. The Trinamool Congress has come under severe criticism from the opposition parties amid these activities in the investigation.
In this situation, Trinamool leader Mamata Banerjee called an organizational meeting at Kalighat on Friday. He gave a message about which way the party will move before the panchayat elections. Among other things, there was corruption in him. According to sources, the Trinamool leader said, “Don’t be afraid of being called a thief. Be a Trinamool with your chest open.”
Even during the Left Front period, there were allegations of corruption in recruitment. According to sources, Mamata has ordered Education Minister Bratya Bose to prepare a list of irregularities in the appointment at that time. Challenging the Chief Minister, CPM central committee member Sujan Chakraborty said, “Publish the list as soon as possible. Let the name of Bratya Bose be included in the list; he got the job during the Left’s tenure!”
“Mamata Banerjee’s politics is always offense is the best defense,” political analyst Prof. Vishwanath Chakraborty told Deutsche Welle of this directive.Seizing opponents through aggression Whenever the team is in danger, he is the tool. The Trinamool leader will bring up the corruption in the appointment of teachers during the Left period from 1990 to 2011. In other words, cover one corruption with another.
Trinamool’s disciplinary committee has already expelled Kuntal and Shantanu from the party. Perth is suspended. But no action has been taken against Manik and Anubrata yet. Explaining this delay, Trinamool MP Sudeep Banerjee commented, “The party will not accept any corruption. In some cases, there may have been or be delays. The matter is under the consideration of the party’s disciplinary committee. They will take a decision in due course.”
The Trinamool leader had also warned party leaders about corruption in the past. Advised a temperate, simple life. But despite that, allegations of financial corruption have been raised against the leaders and workers of the ruling party. BJP leader Bimalshankar Nanda told Deutsche Welle, “The Trinamool leader wants to sustain the party by any means. So she tried to give courage to the workers by facing the corruption investigation.”
Recently, Left-Congress wrested Sagardighi’s seat from Trinamool in Murshidabad. After the huge victory of the opposition in this minority-dominated seat, the question has arisen: has the public’s mind changed because of corruption? The opposition has been continuously campaigning for “chor dharo jail fill’ for months.
In response to this, the opposition is criticizing Mamata Banerjee’s ‘offense’. Congress MP Pradeep Bhattacharya told Deutsche Welle, “He could have said action will be taken against the corrupt. Instead, the chief minister encouraged them. Sagardighi has shown that people will not tolerate this theft.”
