Triggering a big political controversy, main Sharada chit fund accused Sudipto Sen on Thursday named Bengal Opposition Leader Suvendu Adhikari, TMC vice president Mukul Roy and Congress Lok Sabha leader Adhir Chowdhury for deriving illegal benefits from him.
Moments before being produced before a designated court, Sen mentioned about his letters written to the appropriate authorities in which he had claimed that Adhikari, Roy and Chowdhury had taken money from him.
“I wrote the names of Mukul Roy, Adhir Chowdhury who took money from me … In the second letter I wrote the name of Suvendu Adhikari who extorted money from me in several tranches … once he took Rs 90 lakh for the construction of a building at Contai,” Sen said.
The TMC has recently upped the ante against the BJP leadership following ED and CBI interrogation of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s nephew Abhishek Banerjee and his wife Rujira Banerjee. The ED has reportedly asked Rujira Banerjee to explain her links to several crores of rupees parked in a Thailand bank.
Both Abhishek and his better half have been under scanner in cases of money laundering. Junior Banerjee is also being questioned about whether he had a role in the multi-crore coal and cattle smuggling.
Reacting to Sen’s statement Adhikari said he would not comment about “rubbish remarks” while Roy said he had no information about regarding whatever had been said.
Chowdhury was more vociferous in his reaction charging the Chief Minister for trying to frame him.
“Didi has been trying to find out allegations to blemish my name … she failed to do so … now she is using Sharada scamsters to make these comments ... I have already filed a defamation against Sudipto Sen,” the Congress leader who is also the PCC president said wondering why there was no word about what had transpired between the Chief Minister and the Sen at Dello Bungalow in Kalimpong. “We are eager to know from CBI and ED as to what had transpired between Mamata Banerjee and Sudipto Sen in the Dello Bungalow at Kalimpong … why is there no word about that,” Chowdhury said.