Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee on Friday warned celebration leaders that those concerned in taking reduce money” from authorities schemes and different corrupt practices could be positioned in the back of bars.
The caution from the West Bengal chief minister came at an organizational assembly of Nadia district, where the TMC misplaced one of the two Lok Sabha seats to the BJP. Our birthday party supremo has warned us in opposition to getting concerned about corruption and informed us to return cut cash if we had taken any from humans.
She has instructed us if absolutely everyone is determined to search for reducing cash to provide advantages from authorities schemes, she or he will be arrested,” a senior TMC chief from Nadia district stated. Mamata Banerjee’s instructions to party leaders got here within the wake of statewide protests outdoor houses of some of TMC leaders by way of human beings, who sought the return of “cut cash” taken through them within the place.
Mostly, elected representatives on the municipal and panchayat levels confronted the public ire in Birbhum, Coochbehar, Jalpaiguri, Burdwan, Malda, Purulia, Nadia, West Midnapore, and Bankura. At the latest assembly, Banerjee had said, “I do now not want to maintain thieves in my party. If I take motion, they may be part of some other birthday celebration. Some leaders are claiming a 25 percent commission for providing housing offers to the terrible. This has to forestall right now. Return the money if any of you have got taken it.
Her diktat did no longer cross down well with the rank and record of the party as numerous councilors and celebration leaders are wondering the directive. It is a type of insult. If we had taken any reduced money, we had also given a chief chew of it to pinnacle birthday party leaders. What about that? Will, additionally, they return that money,” said a senior TMC leader from Nadia district. Trinamool Congress MP Satabdi Roy said Banerjee ought to have initiated measures to prevent the exercise tons earlier.
A character who has taken reduce money without delay is the most effective frontman. Others are in the back of him. They have additionally taken their proportion, so the cash needs to be lower back in keeping with this chain,” Roy stated in New Delhi on Thursday. Meanwhile, at some stage in the Nadia district organizational assembly, Mamata Banerjee requested celebration leaders to chorus from infighting and paintings unitedly. Didi has requested us to work unitedly and has given us one month time to bounce back in the district. During the assembly, she rebuked a few senior district leaders for being involved greater in infighting than running for the celebration,” a senior TMC MLA said.
She instructed the “traitors” to leave the celebration as opposed to weakening it from inside. The TMC chief held a two-hour-length closed-door assembly with the district unit leaders after losing the Ranaghat Lok Sabha seat to the Bharatiya Janata Party. It controlled to win the Krishnanagar Lok Sabha seat. The TMC chief also hit out at a segment of the birthday celebration leaders who had “surrendered” to the lure of money given with the aid of the BJP and sabotaged the birthday party’s prospects. She told TMC workers to prepare for the 2021 meeting elections and bring the vintage-timers again to the birthday party fold, the chief stated.
