None can do any hurt to TMC, says jailed ex-minister Partha Chatterjee
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KOLKATA: Suspended TMC chief Partha Chatterjee, who’s in jail for his alleged involvement in a faculty recruitment rip-off, claimed on Monday that none can do any hurt to the Mamata Banerjee-led celebration, indicating that he was nonetheless making an attempt to curry favour with its management.
The former Bengal minister, who was arrested on July 23 following restoration of money, jewelry and property deeds from his alleged shut affiliate, prayed for his bail earlier than a particular CBI court docket, which has reserved its order.
The CBI is probing the recruitment rip-off on instructions of the Calcutta High Court, and the Enforcement Directorate is trying into the cash path related to the case.
As Chatterjee received off a car for his court docket listening to, he was requested by reporters to touch upon Leader of Opposition in Bengal Suvendu Adhikari’s assertion that the times of the TMC are numbered and “major developments involving its leaders are on the cards in December”.
The suspended chief was fast to answer that “none can do any harm to the TMC; none can damage TMC’s prospects”.
The ruling celebration in Bengal had eliminated Chatterjee from the state cabinet and all celebration posts, apart from suspending him, shortly after he was arrested in July.
Distancing the celebration from Chatterjee, TMC state spokesperson Kunal Ghosh, when requested about his remark, mentioned the TMC doesn’t want Chatterjee’s certificates and has no relation with him.
Ghosh, nevertheless, asserted there is no such thing as a risk to the TMC, and BJP leaders are making absurd claims.
Besides Adhikari, BJP state president Sukanta Majumdar claimed on events that “the downfall of Mamata Banerjee government will begin from this month (December).”
The TMC spokesperson, speaking to reporters, mentioned, “Leaders like Suvendu Adhikari and Sukanta Majumdar don’t have any relevance, and they’re making such claims simply to stay in them information.
People of Bengal are with the TMC and everybody is aware of that,” he mentioned.
BJP spokesperson Samik Bhattacharya claimed that Chatterjee, former School Service Commission adviser SP Sinha and others arrested in reference to the case had simply “followed instructions of the top leadership”.
“Partha had all the time adhered to the programmes of the celebration.
Hence it isn’t shocking that he’s nonetheless talking in the identical voice as TMC,” Bhattacharya informed PTI.
Chatterjee held the training portfolio between 2014 and 2021 when the irregularities in recruitment of educating and non-teaching employees in state government-sponsored and -aided faculties had allegedly taken place.
He held a number of portfolios, together with Industry and Commerce, through the time of his arrest.
KOLKATA: Suspended TMC chief Partha Chatterjee, who’s in jail for his alleged involvement in a faculty recruitment rip-off, claimed on Monday that none can do any hurt to the Mamata Banerjee-led celebration, indicating that he was nonetheless making an attempt to curry favour with its management.
The former Bengal minister, who was arrested on July 23 following restoration of money, jewelry and property deeds from his alleged shut affiliate, prayed for his bail earlier than a particular CBI court docket, which has reserved its order.
The CBI is probing the recruitment rip-off on instructions of the Calcutta High Court, and the Enforcement Directorate is trying into the cash path related to the case.
As Chatterjee received off a car for his court docket listening to, he was requested by reporters to touch upon Leader of Opposition in Bengal Suvendu Adhikari’s assertion that the times of the TMC are numbered and “major developments involving its leaders are on the cards in December”.
The suspended chief was fast to answer that “none can do any harm to the TMC; none can damage TMC’s prospects”.
The ruling celebration in Bengal had eliminated Chatterjee from the state cabinet and all celebration posts, apart from suspending him, shortly after he was arrested in July.
Distancing the celebration from Chatterjee, TMC state spokesperson Kunal Ghosh, when requested about his remark, mentioned the TMC doesn’t want Chatterjee’s certificates and has no relation with him.
Ghosh, nevertheless, asserted there is no such thing as a risk to the TMC, and BJP leaders are making absurd claims.
Besides Adhikari, BJP state president Sukanta Majumdar claimed on events that “the downfall of Mamata Banerjee government will begin from this month (December).”
The TMC spokesperson, speaking to reporters, mentioned, “Leaders like Suvendu Adhikari and Sukanta Majumdar don’t have any relevance, and they’re making such claims simply to stay in them information.
People of Bengal are with the TMC and everybody is aware of that,” he mentioned.
BJP spokesperson Samik Bhattacharya claimed that Chatterjee, former School Service Commission adviser SP Sinha and others arrested in reference to the case had simply “followed instructions of the top leadership”.
“Partha had all the time adhered to the programmes of the celebration.
Hence it isn’t shocking that he’s nonetheless talking in the identical voice as TMC,” Bhattacharya informed PTI.
Chatterjee held the training portfolio between 2014 and 2021 when the irregularities in recruitment of educating and non-teaching employees in state government-sponsored and -aided faculties had allegedly taken place.
He held a number of portfolios, together with Industry and Commerce, through the time of his arrest.
