: Mamatas action against Partha Chatterjee: Moral gesture or act of compulsion? #IndiaNEWS #Other News Kolkata, July 31 (IANS) Ever since the Trinamool Congress came to power in West Bengal ending the

Mamatas action against Partha Chatterjee: Moral gesture or act of compulsion? #IndiaNEWS #Other News
Kolkata, July 31 (IANS) Ever since the Trinamool Congress came to power in West Bengal ending the 34-year Left Front rule in May 2011, there have been several instances of senior party leaders being embroiled in financial scams and getting arrested.
In the Saradha chit fund scam those who had to spend time in Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) custody included current Trinamool Congress chief whip in the Lok Sabha, Sudip Bandopadhyay, the then state transport minister and current party MLA, Madan Mitra and former Trinamool Congress parliamentarians, late Tapas Paul and Srinjoy Basu, among others.
In the Narada video tape scam, the CBI took into custody transport minister and Kolkata mayor Firhad Hakim and former panchayat minister, late Subrata Mukherjee and also Madan Mitra.
In all these cases, Trinamool Congress supremo and West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee stood like a rock in support of her cabinet and party colleagues and vehemently criticized the BJP and the Union government for allegedly resorting to vendetta politics.
However, things have taken the reverse direction in the recent West Bengal School Service Commission (WBSSC) multi-crore scam involving former education minister and Trinamool Congress secretary general, Partha Chatterjee and his close aide, Arpita Mukherjee. Since the arrest of Chatterjee and Arpita Mukherjee on July 23, an all-out effort is being made to distance the Trinamool Congress from Chatterjee.
The initiative was taken by senior Trinamool Congress leaders who said that the onus is on Partha Chatterjee and not on the party or the state government. But understanding that the attempts of these leaders were not cutting much ice, Mamata Banerjee at a government programme took the same stand and also assured that disciplinary action will be taken against Partha Chatterjee if he is proved guilty. However, within 48 hours Chatterjee was stripped of all his ministerial and party portfolios.
This action was taken within six days of his arrest in the WBSSC scam, something which was unheard of before in the Trinamool Congress. Now the question is whether this is just an attempt to give the party leadership a clean image? Or is it out of the fear that its impact will reach the doorsteps of the chief minister?
IANS spoke to a number of political leaders and analysts on this issue. Barring the Trinamool Congress leaders, all believed that the drastic action was a fallout of the fear factor and absolutely no morality was behind the action.
According to Trinamool Congress national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee, after certain circumstantial evidence came to light, the decision was taken to strip Chatterjee of his ministerial and party portfolios.

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