April 28, 2026 10:07 am (IST)
Follow us:
facebook-white sharing button
twitter-white sharing button
instagram-white sharing button
youtube-white sharing button
‘Will return for swearing-in’: Modi ends Bengal campaign, signals BJP win | Top LeT commander Sheikh Yousuf Afridi gunned down in Pakistan—Mystery gunmen strike again | 'Had a child together, now alleges rape': SC says consensual live-in breakup is not a crime | YouTuber Saleem Wastik arrested in connection with 1995 kidnapping and murder case | Maharashtra Police makes first arrest months after Akshay Kumar revealed daughter’s cyber harassment | Big political shake-up: KCR’s daughter Kavitha floats new TRS after BRS fallout | ED raids multiple Bengal locations in PDS scam probe amid assembly polls | Bengal polls: Mob attacks central forces, 3 CAPF personnel injured in Birbhum | ‘People voting to protect their rights’: Mamata says high turnout backs TMC in Bengal | ‘Fear is being defeated’: PM Modi says high voter turnout signals BJP win in Bengal
Partha Chatterjee

SSC scam: Abhishek Banerjee calls party meeting after clamour to oust arrested TMC minister Partha Chatterjee grows

| @indiablooms | Jul 28, 2022, at 06:20 pm

Kolkata/IBNS: Trinamool Congress (TMC) national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee has called a meeting at 5 pm after clamour to oust arrested teacher recruitment scam accused West Bengal Minister Partha Chatterjee grew after a huge cash worth Rs. 50 crore was recovered from the heavyweight's aide Arpita Mukherjee's flats.

The day started with TMC spokesperson Kunal Ghosh demanding the removal of Chatterjee, who is a former Education Minister, present Commerce and Industry Minister and the ruling party's secretary general, in all forms.

Ghosh's demand was supported by another TMC spokesperson Debangshu Bhattacharya.

Later, Ghosh tweeted, "... Avishek Banerjee has convened party meeting today 5pm at TMC bhawan. I have been told to attend that meeting also..."

After Rs. 21 crore in Arpita's Tollygunge flat, the Enforcement Directorate probing the scam Wednesday recovered around Rs. 29 crore from the small-time Bengali actor's another flat located in Belgharia.

The recent incident has caught the ruling TMC, led by Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, off-guard with the party jumping to distance itself from Chatterjee and the cash recovered from Arpita's flat.

(Image of Abhishek Banerjee: Facebook/Abhishek Banerjee)

Support Our Journalism

We cannot do without you.. your contribution supports unbiased journalism

IBNS is not driven by any ism- not wokeism, not racism, not skewed secularism, not hyper right-wing or left liberal ideals, nor by any hardline religious beliefs or hyper nationalism. We want to serve you good old objective news, as they are. We do not judge or preach. We let people decide for themselves. We only try to present factual and well-sourced news.

Support objective journalism for a small contribution.