The troubles for Trinamool Congress keep mounting after their drubbing at the hands of the BJP during the recent assembly elections. From their leaders resigning from their posts, to the discrepancies in government schemes during their rule coming to light, to now their leaders getting caught with unaccounted cash, it is all coming crashing down.
Now, a day after the arrest of TMC leader and Baduria civic chief Dipankar Bhattacharya, police is shocked with what they found on a farm linked to him and next to his farmhouse.
The police has recovered gunny bags stuffed with cash buried beneath Jute farms linked to arrested Trinamool Congress leader Dipankar Bhattacharya in North 24 Parganas district. Bhattacharya was arrested a day earlier, and during interrogation, information about this buried cash came out.
So far, Rs 2.24 Crore have been dug up in the Jute fields. This is in addition to the 80 lakh rupees Bhattacharya had with him when he was arrested.
The TMC leader has been arrested under stringent charges of financial misappropriations in the Baduria municipal corporation.
In total, five gunny bags filled with cash and other valuable possessions were found at a jute field near his farmhouse. In a scene straight out of Narcos where Pablo Escobar buried cash in remote fields, the cash was buried in this farm to avoid detection.
Bhattacharya, the chairman of Baduria Municipality, is facing corruption and extortion allegations linked to government schemes and local businesses. Notably, just a day earlier, CM Suvendu Adhikari had shared that 30 lakh beneficiaries of TMC’s Lakshmir Bhandar scheme were not eligible, and that was just one scheme. One can imagine the scale of the graft under the previous government.
Further investigations by police are now going on to find out about the source of the money that was buried in the fields..
