Kolkata : Welcoming the Supreme Court order directing CBI to probe the multi-crore Saradha chit fund scam, the Congress today described it as a “personal political defeat” of Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee while the BJP said that the TMC stood “badly exposed”, reports PTI.
“The Supreme Court verdict is a personal political loss of Mamata Banerjee, as she was opposed to a CBI inquiry. Her mask as the symbol of honesty has come out. The people of Bengal will give her a befitting reply,” State Congress president Adhir Chowdhury said.
Chowdhury, also a Union minister said, “She from the very beginning was opposed to the CBI inquiry even as several people have committed suicide and lakhs have been duped by Saradha and other chit fund companies.”
“She was trying to fool the people, but the CBI inquiry will bring out the truth and will book those culprits who this Trinamool regime was trying to save,” he said.
Congress MP Shashi Tharoor said the Supreme Court verdict directing a CBI probe into the Saradha ponzi scam was “historic”. “It is welcome and historic that a CBI probe has been allowed by the Supreme Court in response to several PILs and a move which Congress party had been supporting from the beginning,” he said. BJP National spokesperson Prakash Javadekar said it was the worst kind of scam with the “connivance and blessings of the government of the day”. “We welcome the Supreme Court order. As far as Saradha is concerned, TMC is badly exposed,” he said.
