Fresh attack over frozen party accounts
Moitra also weighed in on another controversy engulfing the party — the freezing of three official Trinamool Congress bank accounts.
The accounts were frozen after former party treasurer and ex-minister Aroop Biswas reportedly wrote to the concerned banks seeking action following complaints by rebel legislators.
The rebel MLAs alleged that money generated through corruption during the previous Mamata Banerjee-led government had been deposited in the accounts. Acting on the complaints, the banks froze debit transactions from the accounts pending further developments.
Moitra dismissed the allegations and turned the spotlight back on the rebels, challenging them to explain the source of funds used during the recently concluded Assembly elections.
“This rebel group, whether MPs or MLAs, should first clarify whether the money provided to them by the party for their election campaigns was accounted or unaccounted,” she said.
She argued that if the rebels genuinely believed they had benefited from unaccounted funds during their campaigns, they should surrender their electoral mandates.
“If you think that you used unaccounted money in your campaign and also got elected, then it is your moral duty to resign from the chair,” Moitra said.
The Trinamool MP, however, expressed little confidence that such resignations would materialise.
“But I know that they will not resign. They are shameless people. They want to take benefits from both sides,” she added.
Deepening political rift
Moitra’s remarks underscore the widening gulf between the Mamata Banerjee camp and the rebel faction, with both sides trading accusations over loyalty, corruption and the future of the party.
As the political realignment gathers pace, the NCPI’s emergence as a platform for dissident Trinamool leaders has added a new dimension to West Bengal’s turbulent political landscape, while Moitra continues to position herself as one of the fiercest defenders of the Banerjee-led leadership against the growing rebellion.
With IANS inputs
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