Mamata Banerjee says 'mistakes happen' amid Partha Chatterjee's involvement in SSC scam

As West Bengal Minister Partha Chatterjee continues to be in Enforcement Directorate's custody in connection with recruitment scam, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee without naming anyone said, 'mistakes happen'. dressing a public garing, Trinamool Congress supremo furr said that if found guilty, those who committed mistake 'should be subjected to punishment'.

'Agencies should not be used to malign images of political parties' 

ED conducted search operations in 13 premises across West Bengal, including residence of Chatterjee, and his aide Arpita Mukherjee. From Chatterjee, incriminating documents related to appointment of group C & D staff, like mit cards of candidates, summary of final results, intimation letter for verification of testimonials and personality among ors, were recovered. From Mukherjee, cash amounting to more than Rs 20 crore, purportedly proceeds of crime, were recovered.

Concluding that  documents as well as stashes of cash recovered make  involvement of Chatterjee and Mukherjee in scam clear, both were arrested by ED on July 23. Initially sent to 2-day and 1-day custody respectively, same was extended till August 3 after agency claimed that re were links.

"I don’t have problems with functioning of any agency, but it should not be used to malign political parties," Banerjee said while dressing garing. 

'BJP won't come in West Bengal'

In 2021 Assembly Elections in West Bengal, after exuding hope of winning more than 200 seats, Bharatiya Janata Party h to settle for only 71 seats as 213 seats were won by TMC in 294-member House, marking return of Banerjee's regime. 

Claiming that agencies were used by BJP in Maharashtra, and are still being used in Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh to usurp Opposition government from power by putting Minister behind bars, Banerjee said, "You come to Bengal...It is not so easy to do that here...For here, you will have to fight Royal Bengal Tiger. "