Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s Trinamool Congress Party will hit the streets of Kolkata on Saturday to protest thearrest of state transport and sports minister Madan Mitra over the Saradha scam.
Sportspersons will protest Because Madan Mitra has run the sports department really well,” she said and dared Prime Minister Narendra Modi to take her into custody. The rally will be organized at 1 PM at the base of the statue of legendary footballer Gostho Pal in central Kolkata’s Maidan area.
On the other hand, the opposition Left Front has decided to hold a rally at 2.30 PM from the feet of the Lenin statue to Moulali to press for a three-point charter of demands including the grilling of Banerjee by the CBI in relation to the scam.
Banerjee knows everything about the scandal, but she tried to brush it under the carpet with the Special Investigation Team of the state police probing the scam,” said Communist Party of India-Marxist state secretariat member Sujon Chakraborty.
A Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) spokesperson said Mitra was arrested on “prima facie evidence of criminal conspiracy, cheating and misappropriation as well as deriving undue financial benefits from the Saradha group.
The 57-year-old minister was nabbed by the probe agency after hours of grilling spread over two sessions by CBI sleuths during the day at its office here.
“The CBI also arrested Naresh Balodia, legal advisor to Sudipto Sen and Saradha group, on charges of criminal conspiracy, cheating and diversion of funds in the same case,” CBI spokesperson Kanchan Prasad added.
Bureau Report
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