Citing the questioning of several key TMC leaders in the Saradha scam by CBI and ED, CPI(M) has called for “stern” action against West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee in the backdrop of her alleged links with scamster Sudipta Sen. In a recently published article in party’s organ ‘People’s Democracy’, the party alleged that Mamata had a “midnight sojourn” with Sen in 2012, along with another tainted chit fund owner.
Major allegations are pointed to none other than Mamata Banerjee herself. Her midnight sojourn with Sudipta Sen and the owner of another big chit fund firm in Kalimpong in 2012, has been exposed. But no denial has come from her over the past one-and-a-half years. There was a specific instance of business deal between the Saradha Group and IRCTC when she was the Railways Minister.
“It has been alleged that huge money was supplied by Saradha Group to TMC before the 2011 Assembly elections. local media reports quoted CBI sources and said that the investigating agencies would soon approach the CM’s office to dig out the truth. The big question now is when and how the Chief Minister’s doorbell will ring,” said the article in the party organ titled as “When will be the knock at Mamata’s doorIJ”
CPI(M) demanded “stern” actions from CBI and ED, rather than the “seeking clarifications” from the Chief Minister. The party pointed out that jailed TMC MP Kunal Ghosh had already told in the Court that “Mamata is the biggest beneficiary in the scam.”
“In the past three months, CBI has questioned five Trinamool MPs, a State Minister and several other party leaders. The agency has also arrested TMC MP Kunal Ghosh and former DGP of the State and TMC leader Rajat Majumdar. Ghosh has spilled the beans and has demanded that Mamata be investigated in the case. Ghosh has claimed in the court too that Mamata was the biggest beneficiary of the scam,” said the article.
The party organ accused TMC supremo’s confident Mukul Roy for “stage managing” the escape of Sen, when the scam broke out. “Asif Khan, a close confidant of top TMC leaders and observer of the party in Uttar Pradesh elections, has categorically alleged that the ‘fleeing’ of Saradha chief from Kolkata after the hell broke out was planned meticulously by Mukul Roy, another MP and general secretary of TMC, and was coordinated by Rajat Majumdar. Arvind Chouhan, the driver of Sen, has stated publicly that it was he who drove Sen to Nizam Palace in Kolkata where he met Mukul Roy and others just before the ‘escape’ was staged. Another TMC MP Subhendu Adhikary was also interrogated for his alleged connection with Saradha chief in realty business among others,” said the CPI(M) organ.