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Expel Partha Chatterjee, Remove Him From All Posts, Demands TMC Spokesperson Kunal Ghosh

The CBI and Enforcement Directorate have ben conducting raids on Bengal minister Partha Chatterjee and his associates in connection with an alleged teacher recruitment scam in West Bengal.

As the Enforcement Directorate (ED) recovered another Rs 29 crore from Partha Chatterjee's aide Arpita Mukherjee's Belghoria residence in North 24-Parganas today, the Trinamool Congress general secretary and Spokesperson Kunal Ghosh called for removal of Partha Chatterjee from all party posts and demanded his expulsion.

Taking to twitter Ghosh Thursday said, "Partha Chatterjee should be removed from ministry and all party posts immediately. He should be expelled. If this statement is considered wrong, the party has every right to remove me from all posts," reported news agency ANI.

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and Enforcement Directorate have ben conducting raids on Bengal minister Partha Chatterjee and his associates in connection with an alleged teacher recruitment scam in West Bengal.

The ED Thursday recovered another Rs 29 crore in cash and over 5 kg gold including some documents at the second apartment of Arpita Mukherjee in Belghoria. The agency had earlier found Rs 20 crore in cash from Mukherjee's other flat in Kolkata.

Meanwhile, Arpita Mukherjee, during the interrogation conducted by ED, said that all money seized from her house is of Partha Chatterjee, reported ABP News, citing ED sources. 

Mukherjee said that money was delivered by Partha's aide or, on occasion, by Partha himself. She, too, stated that she was not permitted to access the chamber where the money was stored.

Partha Chatterjee and Arpita Mukherjee have been sent to ED custody till August 3.

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