KOLKATA, JULY 28 (UNI) Partha Chatterjee was on Thursday sacked from West Bengal’s Mamata Banerjee ministry and all party posts, besides being suspended from the Trinamool Congress, six days after his arrest by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in connection with the alleged School Service Commission (SSC) recruitment scam. The once all-powerful minister and Trinamool leader lost all his government and party posts, hours after the ED allegedly recovered nearly Rs 28 core and a huge quantity of gold from the flat of model-actress Arpita Mukherjee at Belgharia in the city’s northern suburb, taking the total haul from her residences to close to Rs 50 crore since last week.
The ED has already arrested Mukherjee, claiming she was Chatterjee’s “close associate” and raising the suspicion that the money was the “proceeds from the School Service Commission (SSC) recruitment scam”. Chatterjee, who was virtual number two in the cabinet, held a slew of portfolios including commerce and industries and parliamentary affairs, public enterprises, and industrial reconstruction. He also was the in-charge of the information technology and electronics departments.
