‘Why Rot in Jail?’: Mithun Chakraborty Advises Partha Chatterjee to Name Those Involved in SSC Scam
Partha Chatterjee, who has been detained by the ED in connection with a school jobs fraud, was given the advice on Thursday by actor-turned-politician Mithun Chakraborty, who joined the BJP prior to the West Bengal assembly elections last year. The administration of Mamata Banerjee has removed Chatterjee from the ministry with immediate effect as opposition pressure increased.
Mithun claimed that he didn’t think Chatterjee was the rightful owner of all the money that had been seized and that he “must have been the custodian of the money that belonged to someone else.” “. Why endure pain in prison?” the actor told Chatterjee.
Abhishek Banerjee, the leader of the Trinamool Congress, said at a press conference that the party has “agreed unanimously to dismiss Partha Chatterjee from all posts of the TMC.” “.
“Partha Chatterjee, minister in charge of the departments of parliamentary affairs, public enterprises, and industrial reconstruction, as well as the departments of information technology and electronics, is hereby relieved of his duties as MIC of the aforesaid departments with immediate effect, “According to a government of West Bengal official order. According to Mamata Banerjee, she will temporarily manage Chatterjee’s portfolios.
On the other side, Mithun claimed yesterday that 21 of the 38 TMC MLAs who are in contact with the BJP are in direct contact with him. “Want to hear the breaking news? 38 TMC MLAs are currently in contact with the BJP. 21 of them are in contact with me directly. One fine morning when I was in Mumbai, I read in the newspapers that the BJP and Shiv Sena had established the Maharashtra government. He added that the BJP is in power in 18 states, and its flag will “fly high in a few other states very soon”.
For the uninformed, the Enforcement Directorate detained Chatterjee on July 23 in conjunction with its probe into alleged irregularities in the recruitment drives by the School Service Commission (SSC). Arpita Mukherjee, a close acquaintance of Chatterjee’s, was also detained by the central agency, and money worth millions of rupees was taken from her homes in different part of the city.
