West Bengal minister Partha Chatterjee: Scams come-a-calling
4 min readBy PTI
KOLKATA: The over-five-decade-long political profession of senior TMC chief Partha Chatterjee appears to have obtained an enormous jolt with the Enforcement Directorate arresting him on Saturday in reference to its investigation into the alleged college jobs rip-off in West Bengal.
Chatterjee, 69, who presently holds the business and state parliamentary affairs portfolios of the Mamata Banerjee authorities, was the training minister from 2014 to 2021, throughout which the alleged irregularities in trainer recruitment occurred.
He stepped into politics as a pacesetter of Congress college students’ wing – Chatra Parishad – within the late sixties throughout his faculty years, impressed by then firebrand youth leaders Subrata Mukherjee and Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi.
His political profession halted after he took up a high-profile company job within the mid-seventies however he stored in contact with then Congress leaders.
Chatterjee determined to take a plunge into energetic politics after Banerjee broke away from the Congress and fashioned the TMC on January 1, 1998.
He went on to win from the Behala Paschim Assembly constituency for 5 consecutive phrases since 2001 on a TMC ticket.
Chatterjee’s excessive level in his political profession got here in 2006 when he was appointed because the chief of the TMC social gathering within the meeting and later chief of the opposition.
As Banerjee fought in opposition to the mighty Left Front regime on the streets of Bengal on the difficulty of forcible land acquisition in Singur and Nandigram, Chatterjee turned the voice of the opposition within the meeting.
Chatterjee was on the forefront when his social gathering took on then chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharya within the meeting on the problems of land acquisitions.
During that interval in 2007, he was appointed as TMC’s secretary-general by Banerjee.
READ HERE | Teacher recruitment rip-off: Arrested Bengal minister Partha Chatterjee hospitalised
After the social gathering got here to energy 4 years later, he was given cost of business and parliamentary affairs.
However, in a cabinet reshuffle in 2014, he was faraway from the business division and entrusted with the duty of training.
Considered a loyalist of the social gathering supremo, Chatterjee, together with a number of others, was on the forefront in main the previous guards in the course of the alleged inner-party battle between the younger brigade and the veterans that broke out within the TMC in January-February this yr.
After the social gathering returned to energy for the third consecutive time in 2021, he was given the cost of business and parliamentary affairs departments.
He is called an affable and approachable chief in political circles.
His title had additionally cropped up in a Ponzi scheme, which was being probed by the Central Bureau of Investigation.
He has, nonetheless, denied the allegations as politically motivated.
The Trinamool Congress secretary common was arrested by the ED after round 26 hours of grilling in his residence since Friday morning in reference to its probe into the alleged college jobs rip-off.
He was later produced earlier than a choose within the Bankshall courtroom right here and despatched to the ED custody for 2 days.
KOLKATA: The over-five-decade-long political profession of senior TMC chief Partha Chatterjee appears to have obtained an enormous jolt with the Enforcement Directorate arresting him on Saturday in reference to its investigation into the alleged college jobs rip-off in West Bengal.
Chatterjee, 69, who presently holds the business and state parliamentary affairs portfolios of the Mamata Banerjee authorities, was the training minister from 2014 to 2021, throughout which the alleged irregularities in trainer recruitment occurred.
He stepped into politics as a pacesetter of Congress college students’ wing – Chatra Parishad – within the late sixties throughout his faculty years, impressed by then firebrand youth leaders Subrata Mukherjee and Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi.
His political profession halted after he took up a high-profile company job within the mid-seventies however he stored in contact with then Congress leaders.
Chatterjee determined to take a plunge into energetic politics after Banerjee broke away from the Congress and fashioned the TMC on January 1, 1998.
He went on to win from the Behala Paschim Assembly constituency for 5 consecutive phrases since 2001 on a TMC ticket.
Chatterjee’s excessive level in his political profession got here in 2006 when he was appointed because the chief of the TMC social gathering within the meeting and later chief of the opposition.
As Banerjee fought in opposition to the mighty Left Front regime on the streets of Bengal on the difficulty of forcible land acquisition in Singur and Nandigram, Chatterjee turned the voice of the opposition within the meeting.
Chatterjee was on the forefront when his social gathering took on then chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharya within the meeting on the problems of land acquisitions.
During that interval in 2007, he was appointed as TMC’s secretary-general by Banerjee.
READ HERE | Teacher recruitment rip-off: Arrested Bengal minister Partha Chatterjee hospitalised
After the social gathering got here to energy 4 years later, he was given cost of business and parliamentary affairs.
However, in a cabinet reshuffle in 2014, he was faraway from the business division and entrusted with the duty of training.
Considered a loyalist of the social gathering supremo, Chatterjee, together with a number of others, was on the forefront in main the previous guards in the course of the alleged inner-party battle between the younger brigade and the veterans that broke out within the TMC in January-February this yr.
After the social gathering returned to energy for the third consecutive time in 2021, he was given the cost of business and parliamentary affairs departments.
He is called an affable and approachable chief in political circles.
His title had additionally cropped up in a Ponzi scheme, which was being probed by the Central Bureau of Investigation.
He has, nonetheless, denied the allegations as politically motivated.
The Trinamool Congress secretary common was arrested by the ED after round 26 hours of grilling in his residence since Friday morning in reference to its probe into the alleged college jobs rip-off.
He was later produced earlier than a choose within the Bankshall courtroom right here and despatched to the ED custody for 2 days.
