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Partha Chatterjee Sacked as Minister, Removed from all TMC Posts

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The Trinamool Congress suspended arrested minister Partha Chatterjee from all party posts on Thursday. Earlier, Mr. Chatterjee was sacked from the West Bengal ministry following his arrest by the Enforcement Directorate in a teachers recruitment scam case.

It is said that TMC chief and West Bengal CM Mamta Banerjee will handle the portfolios held by Mr. Partha.

According to sources after the arrest of Mr. Chatterjee, other top TMC leaders, ministers, and bureaucrats could be under the radar of central agencies, Sources said Moloy Ghatak, Paresh Adhikary, Manik Bhattacharya, and Manish Jain are under the scanner of central agencies.

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Wednesday seized another Rs 28.90 crore in cash, at least 5 kg gold, and several documents at the second apartment of Arpita Mukherjee, a close aide of arrested Trinamool Congress leader  Partha Chatterjee, days after the recovery of RS 21 crore from her first flat. It took ED Officials 10 hours to count the money, and a huge amount of money was recovered from the toilet.

Last week, ED officials found Rs 21 crore in cash from the house of Arpita Mukherjee. The federal probe agency had raided the residence of Arpita Mukherjee in connection with an alleged teacher recruitment scam in West Bengal. The recovered amount is suspected to be the proceeds of crime from the scam.

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Adhir Rajan Chowdhary Ready To Apologise Says,’Rashtrapatni’ Remark Was Slip Of Tongue

Aleesha Sam

L The Congress MP has found himself in hot water over his ‘rashtrapatni’ remark about President Droupadi Murmu.

New Delhi: Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury,Congress MP who got into trouble for calling the President  a “rashtrapatni,” said he would apologise to President Droupadi Murmu but not to the “pakhandi (fraud)” BJP MPs who had objected to his apparent “slip of the tongue.”

It was a slip of tongue,” the Congress leader said in his defense, adding, “I am a Bengali and not used to Hindi. I have made a mistake.”

Chowdhury then jabbed at BJP too, and listed all the instances in which a saffron party official had disrespected, including Sonia Gandhi.

“What is said about Sonia Gandhi during elections? What is said about Shashi Tharoor’s wife? Inside Parliament, how did they speak about Renuka Chowdhury?” he told reporters.

“I have myself sought time from the President. I might get time to meet her the day after. If we meet, I will personally speak with her. And if I have hurt her sentiments, I will apologise to her. But not to these pankhandis (frauds) who are trying to teach me,” the veteran politician said.

“These are all pakhandis. They are experts at insulting women. They have insulted women one after the other. Should I remind you about them?”

“They are shedding crocodile tears for the tribals now. In India, during Modi ji’s regime, tribals have suffered the most. Go and check the facts. See the condition of the country,”he added.

Strong protests over Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury’s “rashtrapatni” comment, which has since snowballed into a major political crisis, were witnessed in the Lok Sabha this morning.

“Yesterday, when we were holding a protest at Vijay Chowk, journalists asked where we wanted to go. I said “rashtrapatni” only once by mistake. I urged the journalists not to show the part of the video where I made the mistake. The BJP is now creating a row over it,” he said, reported news agency PTI.

“I inadvertently used the word ‘rashtrapatni’ just once and it was a slip of the tongue. I never meant any disrespect to the President,” he said.

“The issue is being blown out of proportion. I do not have the remotest intention of humiliating the highest chair of our country,” Chowdhury said.

 

 

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