West Bengal BJP MPs protest outside Parliament over SSC recruitment scam

The West Bengal BJP MPs on Monday staged a protest outside the Parliament against West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. The protest was against the TMC supremo over the alleged involvement of former state minister Partha Chatterjee in the SSC.

West Bengal BJP MPs raised slogans of “thieves” against Mamata Banerjee and TMC. Earlier on July 23, the ED had arrested Trinamool Congress general secretary Partha Chatterjee to probe the teacher recruitment scam.

Meanwhile, heaps of cash and kilos of gold were seized from the house of Partha’s aide Arpita Mukherjee in Kolkata. Earlier on Sunday, Partha claimed the money did not belong to him.

“When the time comes, you will know…the money does not belong to me,” Partha said to media persons.

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) seized around Rs 50 crore in cash from two houses of Mukherjee during raids.

Moreover, BJP national secretary Anupam Hazra has asked CM Mamata Banerjee to remove the name of former Bengal minister Partha Chatterjee from the pages of the history books of the Madhyamik Shiksha Parishad.

“Hon’ble Chief Minister, this man is now in jail for embezzlement of money from millions of educated unemployed youth. Now at least remove his name from the pages of Class 8 History books. Otherwise, the new generation will start considering this person as equivalent to Netaji and Khudiram after seeing his name on the pages of the book,” Hazra tweeted,

Meanwhile, on Thursday, Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee removed Partha Chatterjee from the Bengal ministry, from the positions of Commerce and Industry, Parliamentary Affairs, Information Technology and Electronics, and Public Enterprises and Industrial Reconstruction in the state Cabinet.