Kolkata: Trinamool Congress today sought to dismiss allegations by opposition parties that many of its leaders were involved in Saradha ponzi scam and claimed that it was a ploy by them to keep the main culprits behind the curtains.
“Opposition parties are trying to forge together and are making wild allegations to keep the main culprits behind curtains,” Trinamool Congress secretary general Partha Chatterjee told reporters at the party headquarters here.
“It was Mamata Banerjee who got the main accused arrested and her government has been trying to give back money to the investors,” Chatterjee said.
Asked why nearly 50 ambulances sponsored by Saradha group was taken by the government, he said “the scam had not been unearthed when the ambulances were received.”
Making an oblique reference to suspended party Rajya Sabha MP Kunal Ghosh, Chatterjee said “We knew a person as a journalist. But if he did something else later as a result of which he is in jail now, then what can one do.”
He asserted that the Mamata Banerjee government in West Bengal would continue unperturbed despite the canards and smear campaign by the Opposition.
About BJP which has pitchforked into the limelight with its high-pitched campaign against the TMC over the Saradha scam, Chatterjee said “BJP has no future in Bengal. Those who are trying to bring them here have neither any past nor future.”
He also claimed that opposition was making ‘a lot of noise' about the Saradha issue with an eye on the assembly by-poll in two seats, including the prestigious Chowringhee constituency in the heart of the city, in West Bengal on September 13.
