The Trinamool Congress (TMC) has appointed a former Additional Director of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) as “a consultant” to find “loopholes” in cases framed by the agency against top leaders of the party. Party’s secretary general and West Bengal Education Minister Partha Chatterjee said in a press conference that the party “has decided” to appoint Upendra Nath Biswas as a consultant regarding “CBI- related matters.”
A 1968 batch IPS officer, Mr. Biswas, who is also the State’s Backward Classes Welfare Department Minister, is known for doggedly pursuing the 950-crore fodder scam of Bihar resulting in conviction former Bihar Chief Minister Lalu Prasad and Jagannath Mishra. Mr Biswas is now a TMC MLA from a North 24 Paragans constituency. The TMC now wants Mr Biswas to study the “loopholes in CBI investigation” as well. He investigated Bihar's Chief Ministers as a joint director and went on to become an Additional Director.
Meanwhile, soon after his arrival in the city on Wednesday morning, party general secretary Mukul Roy met Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee at the new State secretariat at Nabanna in Howrah district.
While he refused to take questions after his meeting with the Chief Minister, Mr Roy told reporters at Kolkata airport that he is ready to meet the CBI officers.
