High-power inquiry into chit fund mess in West Bengal: Left Front

Kolkata Left Front Monday accused Trinamool Congress of misleading people and demanded a high power inquiry committee to probe the Saradha chit fund mess, offenders be arrested, and the depositors be paid out of the assets of the group.

“A high power inquiry committee should be formed to probe how it happened, how and who all are involved, everything should come to light, and ultimately the guilty should be punished,” said left front chairman Biman Bose.

Bose said the state and the centre should jointly deal with the situation.

“A Left Front delegation headed by Surya Kanta Mishra will give a deputation to the central government in Delhi,” he said.

Bose said the government should take immediate measures to save the interests of depositors and agents who mainly belong to low and medium income group.

“The State and the Central government should acquire the assets of the chit fund group and immediately take measures to give away the money to the depositors who have lost their money,” he said demanding immediate arrests of the owners and other officials associated with them as things may get complicated due to the delay.

In the wake of three suicides associated with the chit fund mess in the state the Left Front will hold rallies in all the districts of the state to create awareness among the people, it will also come out with a booklet which will deal with the problems in state and how deal with them.

Accusing the Trinamool General Secretary of misleading people of the state Bose said,“All India General Secretary of Trinamool Congress (Mukul Roy) is repeatedly saying that the Left front government has given the license to these organisations, if a lie is said 100 times it cannot turn into truth, the state government.”

Left Front also alleged that they have come to know during the elections many agents were indulged in “whisper campaigns” telling people “if the left front comes in power their business will suffer due to the bill it (left front) was coming with.”

“Many of the agents have themselves confessed of doing the campaign, that if Trinamool is not voted to power, business cannot be done. We can very well infer from this that who is linked to whom,” said Bose

Left Front also accused that the ordinance the state government was coming up with was just to delay the process of arrests as it will take a lot of time and by then the government will make all the arrangements.

“Ordinance cannot be implemented unless it gets the assent of the governor and the president, therefore this is a dilly dally process by which she and her government can rescue Sudipto Sen,” he said.

Bose urged that the Trinamool congress declare the names of all the buyers of Mamata Banerjee paintings.