By Rajesh Saha: Former education minister of West Bengal and accused into the alleged teachers’ recruitment scam, Partha Chatterjee, wants to write a letter to his party, Trinamool Congress (TMC), asking why he was suspended from every post from the party and Bengal government.
Jailed former TMC leader Partha Chatterjee recently expressed such a desire to his lawyer.
Partha Chatterjee was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in connection with the teachers’ recruitment scam in West Bengal. Later, he was arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in the same case. Currently, he is lodged at Presidency Jail after being remanded to judicial custody by a special court in Kolkata.
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According to a source, Partha Chatterjee has also told his lawyer, Sukanya Bhattacharya, that he wants to recover his reputation that he has lost after being arrested.
Sukanya Bhattacharya told India Today, “Partha Chatterjee has said that as soon as he gets released from the jail, he would like to go to Behala first to talk to his voters and supporters there.”
Behala is the western part of Kolkata and Behala West has been Partha Chatterjee’s Assembly constituency since 2001. In the 2021 Assembly election in West Bengal, Partha Chatterjee won from the same constituency.
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