Kolkata: Virtually giving a clean chit to the Trinamool Congress and its leaders on the chit fund scam, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee yesterday claimed nobody from her party has taken money from chit fund-aided companies, and hit out at a section of the media for showing Trinamool leaders as “thieves”.
Against the backdrop of the CBI arresting Trinmaool leader Rajat Majumdar and grilling some party leaders, and media speculation that a national-level Trinamool leader and a state minister could be under the scanner of the investigative agency over the Saradha Group chit fund scandal, Banerjee alleged that some media houses were running a “campaign of lies” against her party.
“None in the Trinamool has taken any money from chit funds. Only a section of the media has taken such advantage. I can prove this by showing documents. I hold no grudge against you, but please don’t lie,” she said at a party event here.
“Some newspapers are trying to depict my party leaders as thieves. But just because somebody calls somebody thief, does he become so? This has to be proved first,” the Trinamool supremo said. IANS
