Bengal withdraws minister’s safety after jibes towards celeb leaders

The West Bengal authorities on Wednesday withdrew the safety cowl of three-time Trinamool Congress MLA and minister of state for client affairs Srikant Mahata after he questioned the credibility and morality of the celeb leaders within the get together.

After being censured and issued a show-cause discover for feedback whereby he claimed that celeb leaders like Mimi Chakraborty, Nusrat Jahan, June Malia and Saayoni Ghosh, regardless of looting cash are thought of property for the get together, the state authorities withdrew the safety entitled to him as a minister of state.

He could be supplied with only a body-guard which he’s entitled to as an elected legislator and his remaining safety personnel have been requested to report again to the police traces, sources from the state residence division mentioned.

The event occurs regardless of Mahata apologising for his feedback and explaining he made such statements being pushed by feelings.

Whereas Mimi Chakraborty and Nusrat Jahan are Trinamool Congress Lok Sabha members from Jadavpur and Basirhat constituencies respectively, Malia is an elected MLA from Midnapore Meeting constituency. However, Saayoni Ghosh is the state president of Trinamool Congress’s youth wing in West Bengal.

Mahata is in Kolkata now to attend a gathering of the state cupboard to be chaired by the chief minister. The query now’s that whether or not after withdrawing his safety, he would even be proven the doorways out of the ministry.

“It’s to be seen now what resolution that Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee takes within the cupboard assembly at the moment,” mentioned a member of the state cupboard on strict situation of anonymity.

It’s learnt that following the feedback of Mahata, lots of the celeb leaders that he named in his assertion grew to become extraordinarily agitated and introduced that to the discover of the chief minister. The chief minister additionally didn’t take the matter evenly and on her directions, the get together management censured Mahata.

–IANS

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