The Enforcement Directorate on Wednesday issued fresh summons to Trinamool Congress general secretary Abhishek Banerjee to appear before the agency in connection with the school jobs scam on November 9. The Trinamool leadership said that Mr. Banerjee will appear before the investigating agency on Thursday in Kolkata.
The Trinamool leader has been summoned by the agency in connection with cases both by the ED and CBI, multiple times. The ED had earlier summoned the Diamond Harbour MP to appear before it on October 9, after he skipped the October 3 summons to participate in a Trinamool Congress protest rally in the national capital, demanding immediate release of Central funds due to the State.
The school job scam wherein appointments in State-run schools were made illegally for monetary gains had rocked West Bengal politics since July 2023. Several leaders of Trinamool Congress including former Education Minister Partha Chatterjee are behind bars for their alleged involvement in the scam .
