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New Delhi: Former Education Minister of West Bengal, Partha Chatterjee, has been granted bail in the SSC scam case after more than three years in jail. Many things have changed in his life in the last three years, and he has been suspended from the TMC. Moreover, he has lost his ministry. However, returning to his home in Naktala after so long can give Chatterjee a sense of 'relief'.
Posters in support of him were put up in Behala West, where he has been the MLA for the past 25 years. In the region, posters were put up for Partha Chatterjee saying 'I want him again' by the citizens of ward number 125.
Trinamool Congress came to power in the state in 2011. And Partha Chatterjee, one of the founding members of the party and a close aide of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, became the TMC MLA from Behala West in 2001. On July 23, 2022, the ED arrested him in a recruitment corruption case. Then his name came up in one scam case after another. Partha returned home today after getting bail from those cases.
There was excitement around him today in Behala. But, the question arises, will Partha get a TMC ticket in the Assembly elections in 2026 even if he is released from jail? He was suspended from TMC after he was arrested in the teacher recruitment corruption case.
The ruling party's frontline leaders also distanced themselves from Partha. A few days ago, a new speculation surfaced about Partha in Behala West. After seven years, Sovan Chatterjee has made a comeback in TMC. Notably, Sovan was once an MLA from Behala East. Now, the MLA there is his wife Ratna Chatterjee, with whom Sovan has a strained relationship. There is a speculation that Sovan would be nominated as a candidate from Behala West in the election in 2026.
Despite his release from jail and his return home, TMC leaders have not expressed any extra excitement about Partha so far. Party leader Kunal Ghosh said yesterday, "It is a matter of law. If a person has applied for bail in the court, and if the court thinks he can get bail, then he will get it as per the law." No other TMC leader has commented on the matter yet.
Partha questioned his suspension by the TMC in a letter addressed to the party's high command and said, "I have come to know through the media that the party has suspended me. Under which section of the party constitution have I been suspended?" In the letter, Partha has called Abhishek "the new commander" of the party. Moreover, in the letter, which he wrote during his stay in jail, Partha has asked that in many cases, the party stands by the accused leaders, then why didn't it stand by him? According to reports, the letter has already reached TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee's office.
