When the city of joy has its tension rising in the big names being involved in the ‘teacher recruitment scam’, BJP feels that the dominant party of TMC should be probed for corruption.
The TMC leader and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s campaign against the federal investigating agencies drew criticism from BJP, which referred to it as “chor machaye shor (thief creating noise)”. “A close friend of a minister’s house contained cash worth Rs 21 crore, according to an ED raid. At a press conference held at the BJP headquarters, Union Minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar informed reporters that Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee had praised the minister for his outstanding job and that they had now learned more about the good work she was referring to.
He stated that almost 1-lakh crore worth illegal assets was brought back to mainstream by the investigating agencies.
“We want to expose the hypocrisy of the leaders who do their very best to intimidate investigative agencies and derail the process of the investigation,” Chandrasekhar said.
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) detained West Bengal Industry Minister Partha Chatterjee on Saturday as part of its inquiry into the alleged school jobs scam. Arpita Mukherjee, a close associate of Chatterjee’s, was also held by the federal investigation agency, and cash worth Rs 21 crore was confiscated from her home. The BJP leaders said that the cash haul taken from Mukherjee’s residence had exposed TMC corruption.