Entire TMC A Thief: WB BJP President On Partha, Arpita Arrests

Mumbai: West Bengal BJP president Sukanta Majumdar said that the entire Trinamool Congress (TMC) is a “thief”.

He further alleged that Trinamool Congress has been ‘lying from the very beginning about Partha Chatterjee and Arpita Mukherjee’s involvement in the ongoing investigation in the teacher recruitment scam.

Majumdar further said that Banerjee used to be a part of the political campaign of the two arrested in the School Service Commission (SSC) scam.

“TMC has been lying since the beginning, Arpita Mukherjee is a political figure, she was part of Partha Chatterjee’s political campaign of Partha Chatterjee and other programmes of TMC. They are trying to deny the charges,” he said, as quoted by news agency ANI.

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) recovered a trunk full of cash from the house of Partha Chatterjee and Arpita Mukherjee, who claimed that the money belonged to the minister.

Partha Chatterjee, who was arrested by the ED on July 23, was the education minister of West Bengal when the SSC scam was allegedly pulled.

The ED had also arrested actress Arpita Mukherjee, a 69-year-old politician’s aide, after receiving crores of rupees from their residences in different parts of the city.

Taking a jibe at Banerjee’s cabinet reshuffle, the Bengal BJP president alleged that she was trying to divert media attention from corruption cases in West Bengal.

“Due to the corruption cases that are coming to the fore in West Bengal, the people of Bengal have understood that the entire government is a thief. The thief will go and another new thief will come and he will start stealing again with his new energy, nothing much is going to change,” Majumdar told ANI.

“If Banerjee had taken the right decision in this matter, then there would be a loss for the BJP in the coming elections, but it will not be a total political loss,” he said.

Banerjee underwent a major cabinet reshuffle on Monday and inducted several new faces, with some ministers trying to bolster the party ahead of the crucial panchayat elections next year.

After Banerjee’s announcement Asima Patra, the minister of state with independent charge of the department of planning, statistics and programme monitoring and Saumen Mahapatra, the state irrigation and waterways minister was assigned organisational responsibilities in their respective districts.

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