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Will alleged scam in West Bengal impact the Trinamool Congress adversely?

The West Bengal government "relieved" Chatterjee of his duties as minister. Suspension from party posts followed

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Chatterjee and Mukherjee were arrested after the first cash stash of Rs 20 crore was retrieved from Mukherjee’s residence on July 22

Ishita Ayan Dutt
In 2011, when Mamata Banerjee stormed into Writers’ Building, which then housed the government in West Bengal, ending 34 years of Left rule, Partha Chatterjee was one of her most trusted lieutenants. Among the few who had a say during the formation of the first Cabinet, he was one. But from the high perch to being stripped of all posts in the government and party, it’s a long drop.

Television pictures showed heaps of money — in bundles of Rs 2,000 and Rs 500 denominations — recovered from the flats of Arpita Mukherjee, a “close associate” of Chatterjee, by the Enforcement