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Arrested Trinamool Congress MP, Kunal Ghosh, has said the party benefitted from Ponzi scheme operator Saradha Group’s media ventures.
In a pre-recorded video footage, aired by a private Bengali news channel (24-Ghanta) late on Tuesday evening, Ghosh alleged that Saradha’s media ventures were created (in 2010) to garner support in favour of Trinamool in West Bengal and other states.
The stated aim was to project West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee as the future Prime Ministerial candidate.
TMC mouthpiece
According to Ghosh, who was the CEO of Saradha’s media business, the Group Chairman Sudipta Sen personally explained the strategy to the West Bengal Chief Minister.
“All media houses owned by the Saradha Group were used exclusively as a TMC mouthpiece. The party took all possible benefits and was well aware of it,” Ghosh claimed in the TV footage. The news channel claimed that the footage was recorded by Ghosh himself before his arrest.
In the video, Ghosh refers to nearly a dozen of people including Mamata Banerjee, four other party MPs (Srinjoy Bose, the father-son duo of Sisir and Suvendu Adhikari and KD Singh); TMC general secretary Mukul Roy; West Bengal Transport Minister Madan Mitra; and other several top functionaries of Trinamool.
Allegations ‘fabricated’
Efforts to contact Mukul Roy for the party’s version remained unsuccessful. However, Suvendu Adhikari claimed that the allegations were “false and fabricated”.
Saradha entered the media business in early 2010, within a year of Banerjee’s Trinamool Congress winning a majority of the 42 Lok Sabha seats in the state in the 2009 general elections.
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