In the face of revelations by Enforcement Directorate (ED) in the multi-crore West Bengal School Service Commission (WBSSC) recruitment irregularities scam, minister and Trinamool Congress secretary general Partha Chatterjee is getting totally isolated from the state government as well as the party.
The vehicle allotted to Chatterjee as a minister from the secretariat of the state Assembly has been withdrawn. Chatterjee currently holds three parallel portfolios in the state cabinet — state commerce & industries minister, state parliamentary affairs minister and the state information technology and electronics minister.
By virtue of this ministerial portfolio, he was allotted the vehicle number WB 10-006 from the assembly secretariat. However, from Tuesday, state assembly sources confirmed that this particular vehicle stands withdrawn and brought back to the car-pool of the secretariat. “This has been done after the consent of the minister concerned,” said an official of the assembly secretariat on strict condition of anonymity.
Also, Trinamool Congress’s daily party mouth piece in Bengali, Jago Bangla (Wake up Bengal) has stopped referring to Partha Chatterjee as the state minister or the party secretary general, since the time he had been arrested by ED. Wherever references are required for editorial purpose, he is being referred…
