After cold-shouldering Partha, why Mamata is throwing her weight behind Anubrata Mondal | Political Pulse News,The Indian Express
West Bengal Chief Minister and party supremo, Mamata Banerjee, has made it clear now that the party will stand by Mondal, who has been remanded in the CBI custody till August 20.
Days after the Trinamool Congress (TMC) sought to distance itself from its Birbhum district president Anubrata Mondal after he was arrested by the CBI in a cattle-smuggling case, the West Bengal Chief Minister and party supremo, Mamata Banerjee, has made it clear now that the party will stand by Mondal, who has been remanded in the CBI custody till August 20.
Close on the heels of Mondal’s arrest on August 11, minister and TMC leader Chandrima Bhattacharya had told a press conference that “Party has zero tolerance on corruption. The accused should prove their innocence before the law.”
This was in line with the stance the TMC took a fortnight earlier when party heavyweight Partha Chatterjee was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) over his alleged involvement in the school teacher recruitment scam. The ED also arrested Chatterjee’s associate Arpita Mukherjee and recovered over Rs 50 crore from her flats in Kolkata.
Swinging into action, Mamata had then sacked Chatterjee from her cabinet and suspended him from the TMC, even as her nephew and second-in-command Abhishek Banerjee had distanced the party from the huge piles of seized cash.
However, rising in defence of Mondal, Mamata on Sunday launched a blistering attack on the BJP-led Centre, asserting that she will stand by the Birbhum party strongman and announced to “start a movement” against alleged excesses of the central agencies like the ED and the CBI.
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