Two days after the arrest of the State’s Industries and Commerce Minister Partha Chatterjee in the School Service Commission recruitment scam, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on July 25 broke her silence and said that there had been attempts to malign her.
“If someone is a thief, then Trinamool Congress (TMC) does not care about that person. I have had my own [party] boys arrested. I have not spared my own MLAs, MPs and Minister if they do something wrong. But if you try to besmirch my name, then remember I too carry coal tar,” the Chief Minister said.
Ms. Banerjee, while speaking at an event where the West Bengal Government bestowed State honours on eminent people, said that her government had never indulged in any wrongdoing knowingly and the investigation should be completed in a time-bound manner.
