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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Music to govt ears: Sen sings ‘CPM’

Music to govt ears: Sen sings ‘CPM’

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published Published on Apr 26, 2013   modified Modified on Apr 26, 2013
-The Telegraph


Kolkata: Arrested Saradha Group chief Sudipta Sen, the architect of the default crisis in Bengal, has said he had approached several CPM leaders over his business, police said.

Sen, who was brought to Calcutta late last night and kept in police custody before his court production this afternoon, has told the police he had met a CPM state committee member in 2008 over a possible investment in a news channel perceived to be close to the then Left government.

The leader, Sen has said, had initially agreed to the proposition but the party had taken a collective decision against the move.

"He (Sen) said he wanted to venture into the media industry after floating Saradha Realty in 2008. He got introduced to a CPM state committee member through a common friend - a senior gastroenterologist working in a government-run hospital in Calcutta," an investigating officer of Bidhannagar police said.

"The CPM, however, apparently did not wish to be openly associated with the Saradha Group and promised to provide tacit support, Sen has told us," the officer said.

Sen, who aligned with Trinamul leaders after the change of guard at Writers', has also claimed he personally knew a CPM state secretariat member who was also a minister, according to the police.

Sources in the CPM corroborated Sen's claims and said the Saradha chairman and managing director had been seen with the state secretariat member. The sources said Sen had got introduced to some others in the party but such links were always kept under wraps.

Political observers said the CPM had not made the "mistake" Trinamul made - being publicly associated with Sen.

"It is important not to leave a trail. Unlike leaders of the previous regime, some in Trinamul have made it apparent that they were close to the Saradha boss," a government official said.

Trinamul minister Madan Mitra was the president of an employees' union of the Saradha Group. Mitra said yesterday that he had snapped ties with the union.

MP Satabdi Roy was the company's brand ambassador. Two Rajya Sabha MPs, Kunal Ghosh and Srinjoy Bose, had close ties with Sen.

"No one will be spared... The law will take its own course," industries minister Partha Chatterjee had said yesterday, trying to distance the ruling party from the Saradha Group.

A senior government official said chief minister Mamata Banerjee's initial silence on the mushrooming of fraud deposit companies and the crisis precipitated by Saradha, and her sudden announcement of an inquiry committee was "nothing but an effort to establish a connection between the dubious deposit-mobilising schemes of Saradha".

"The chief minister is expected to take action against some of her partymen for their links with Saradha. Then, she will go after Left leaders. That is why she has set up an inquiry commission," a political observer said.


The Telegraph, 26 April, 2013, http://www.telegraphindia.com/1130426/jsp/bengal/story_16829483.jsp#.UXoNYErcinh


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