MLAs leaving BJP and joining Mamata Banerjee’s party on ED’s radar, notice to company: Sources
Food and Edible Oil Company of a Trinamool Congress MLA has received a notice from the Enforcement Directorate. According to sources, the said action has been taken regarding suspicious financial transactions between his company and two Kolkata-based channels. This thing has come to the fore when the ED has recovered crores from the aide of suspended Trinamool Minister Partha Chatterjee. It is expected that party MLA Krishna Kalyani can be summoned by the central probe agency any time.
Kalyani was in BJP before joining Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s party. He is the owner of Kalyani Solvex Private Limited, a food manufacturing firm established in the year 2002. He contested the 2021 assembly elections on a BJP ticket. But without resigning from the assembly, he joined the Trinamool. Enforcement Directorate sources said that the financial transactions of the MLA’s company with two Kolkata-based channels are under investigation.
Alleged taking bribe for recruitment
Significantly, after the recovery of crores of rupees from Arpita Mukherjee’s house, Trinamool has distanced itself from arrested minister Partha Chatterjee. Chatterjee, who was once close to Ms. Banerjee, was sacked as a minister by the party yesterday. Also removed from all party posts. He is accused of taking bribes to recruit teachers and staff in government schools in 2016, when he was the education minister.
