Kunal Ghosh, born 20 June 1968, journalist, politician from All India
Trinamool Congress, who is a Member of the Parliament
of India representing West
Bengal in the Rajya
Sabha. His declared educational qualification is Certificate in Audio Visual
Journalism, Media Management. His first political appearance was in 2010 when
he compared entire TMC event of “Shahid Diwas” i.e. 21st July. He
almost grabbed Guiness Record for Salary hike when he joined Saradha Group at
whopping Rs 1600000/- per month (before joining Saradha Group his salary was Rs
60000/- per month)!! He headed Media unit of Saradha Group.
His merry
time ended in 2013, when Sudipto Sen, owner of Saradha Group, and his aides
fled from Kolkata. Sudipto Sen in a letter to CBI accused
Ghosh of forcing him to sign some documents and letters for sale of the news
channel Channel 10 to him. FIR was filed against Ghosh at Bhowanipore PS and
Park Street PS by employees of Bengali Daily ‘Sakalbela’ and Media ‘Channel 10’
respectively, for non-payment of salary. Ghosh was first summoned by
Bidhannagar Police on 29th Apr 2013. He was show-caused by TMC party
along with Shatabdi Roy and Tapas Paul on 21st Sep 2013 for
anti-party statement and was suspended from TMC on 27th Sep 2013 on
same ground.
He was the first TMC MP to be arrested in Saradha Scam. He was arrested
on 23rd Nov 2013 after being interrogated 7 times by Bidhannagar
Police. He was in headlines number of times after being arrested; he named many
TMC leaders and claimed their association with Saradha Scam. At one point he
even said “if anyone got most benefit out of Saradha, she is Mamata Banerjee….”
Subhaprasanna Bhattacharjee is an Indian artist,
born in Kolkata in 1947. He graduated from the Indian College of Arts (Rabindra
Bharati University, Kolkata) in 1969. Subhaprasanna has depicted varying
moods of Kolkata and its people, its places, and all its facets that make the
city distinctive. In the 1960s and 1970s his work was influenced by the
turbulence and political violence of Kolkata. Subhaprasanna's series of
paintings, Icons and Illusions, marked a
creative breakthrough for the artist. Being an Urban artist the subject matter
that got reflected were byways, alleyways, people and bird – especially The Crows!
His work has been exhibited extensively in India and internationally in the United States, Bangladesh, Singapore, France, Switzerland, and Germany.
Since 2007, after his painting career was down, Shuvaprasanna's
involvement in politics of West Bengal increased. Since then he has been
closely associated with Mamata Banerjee.
Before the 2011 assembly election he became a prominent face to campaign for Parivartan.
In recognition to his support, the then Railway minister Mamata Banerjee
created a new department in the railway ministry and made him chairperson of
that department. He was given a salary of Rs. 50,000 with other perks and
benefits, but was never seen doing duty! He was termed as ‘key advisor’ to Ms
Banerjee by Media. He Almost started a Channel under a company called
“Devakripa”, which was never aired, and sold it to Saradha at exorbitantly high
price. (However according to reports of many Media that none of the Directors
in this company exists in reality except Mr. Shuvaprasanna.)This transaction
triggered alarm to Enforcement Diretorate (ED) and summoned him. ED and CBI are
after him and summoned him regarding Saradha Scam, couple of times. It is heard
from unconfirmed source that he tried to leave the country from New Delhi, but
couldn’t, as his passport is under Alert!
Srinjoy
Bose, born on 17th
Mar 1976, journalist, writer, industrialist and politician from All India Trinamool Congress who is a Member of the Parliament
of India representing West
Bengal in the Rajya Sabha from
Aug 2011. He
did his schooling from Don Bosco School, Kolkata and B.Com from University of
Calcutta. Srinjoy is son of Mr Swapan
Sadhan Bose (better known as Tutu Bose) Honorary President of Mohun Bagan
Athletic Club and ex Rajya Sabha MP from West Bengal. Srinjoy is Assistant
General Secretary of Mohun Bagan Athletic Club. Swapan Sadhan Bose is the owner of the cargo-handling Ripley
& Co which had a turnover of Rs 3 billion in 2008-09. The Bose family also
owns E C Bose & Company which is more than 160 years old. Srinjoy is an
advisor in his Father’s Dubai based company Radio Asia Network – Radio Asia (AM) in Malayalam, Suno 1024
(FM) in Hindi/Urdu and Super 947 (FM) in Malayalam and Tamil – reaches out to
Indians in West Asia. Senior Bose diversified his business and started Bengali
Daily ‘Sangbad Pratidin’ in 1992 and Srinjoy was made Editor-in-Chief later.
In
2012 news hit headlines, ABG Haldia Bulk Terminal which operated in two berths,
pulled out it operations from Haldia Dock Complex, do you recollect? If you
re-collect, now connect, Ripley & Co was a major cargo handling company in
Haldia Dock Complex.
A
contract was signed between Sambad Pratidin and Saradha Media that Saradha will
pay Rs 60 lakhs monthly and Sambad Pratidin will provide content to Saradha’s
channel. Sambad Pratidin entered into contract with Saradha Group on 8 Sep 2010,
which Srinjoy claims have ended on 31st May 2012 on account of
unpaid dues and bounced cheques. This contract and the money transfer in this
regard are under the scanner of CBI and ED. Srinjoy was questioned in this
regard by CBI on 10th Sep 2014. CBI summoned both Madan Mitra and
Srinjoy Bose to appear for interrogation on 21st Nov 2014. Madan got
admitted in Belle View Nursing Home and Srinjoy appeared for interrogation,
where he was arrested. Srinjoy was second TMC MP to be arrested in Saradha
scam.
Rajat
Majumdar, a leader of Trinamool Congress and a
former director general of the West
Bengal Police. A 1971 batch IPS officer Majumdar
had earlier served as Inspector General (Railways). After retirement in 2008,
he joined TMC and was made vice president of the party later. He had key
responsibilities in supervising party activities at Birbhum,the land of Manirul
& Anubrata.
Majumdar joined as a security advisor of Saradha Group at a whopping Rs
1000000/- monthly salary!! Security Advisor at Rs 1000000/- monthly salary
immediately drew attention of CBI and Majumdar was summoned twice. It is
presumed that Majumdar was unable to explain the relation between his role and
responsibilities in Saradha and his pay cheque. CBI arrested him, as investigators found
incongruity in his statements.
Madan
Mitra was born on 3rd
December 1954 at Bhawanipore, Kolkata. Mitra is Minister of Transport and
Sports of West Bengal Government. He has completed his graduation from Calcutta
University. Mr. Mitra worked for United India Insurance Co. as an Assistant
Divisional Manager. He joined political party in 1973. He was the president of
Chhatra Parishad at Ashutosh College in 1976 and also of the South Calcutta
District Chhatra Parishad in 1977. 1986 onwards he was the General Secretary of
West Bengal State Youth Congress and 1990 onwards he was the General Secretary
of West Bengal State Youth Congress which was led by Miss Mamata Banerjee. In
2000, he was elected as the General Secretary of West Bengal Trinamul Congress.
He was the president of West Bengal Trinamul Youth Congress in 2004. In 2009 he
was the President of All India Trinamul Youth Congress. He is closely
associated with Smt. Mamata Banerjee in different movements for the last 30
years. He has helped many veteran sports personalities of West Bengal when he
came to know about their ill-health.
Mitra is undoubtedly the most colourful
character in Mamata’s cabinet. News form unconfirmed source says that he got
involved in an affair also. He was also President of Saradha’s Employees’
Union. After Saradha scam surfaced, worry some days of Mitra began. Saradha’s
Employees and Agents took to road saying that they got involved in Saradha after
seeing Mitra as President of Saradha’s Employees’ Union. Soon, electronic media
started showing how Mitra praised Sudipto Sen by saying “Sudipto Sen
accumulated every drop of water and created an Ocean” (Bindu bindu theke sindhu
koreche Sudipto Sen!). With elapse of time and statements of Kunal Ghosh to
media, Mitra’s connection with Saradha went under scanner of CBI. Mitra got
admitted in Belle View Nursing Home for his treatment twice after CBI took over
enquiry of Saradha Scam. After listening that he has to appear for
interrogation on 21st Nov 2014, he again got admitted in Belle View
Nursing Home. CBI told media that, if required they will form a Medical Board
of their own to examine the health of Mitra. Mitra, walked out of Nursing Home
without informing the authority and got admitted in SSKM hospital. Mitra attended CBI
interrogation on 12th Dec 2014 and was arrested for incongruity in his statements. He created history by being the first
minister of West Bengal to be arrested since Independence.
Mukul Roy, born 17 April 1954, at Kanchrapara. is a
politician and a member of the RajyaSabha, repesenting West
Bengal. He also serves as the General Secretary of
the All India Trinamool
Congress. He did his BSc (Part I) from Calcutta
University. He also earned an MA
degree in public administration from the Madurai
Kamaraj University in 2006!! After Mamata
Banerjee resigned as the Railway
Minister she was to become the Chief
Minister of West Bengal, Dinesh Trivedi was handed
with Railway Ministry. After Railway Budget 2012, Mamata Banerjee expressed her discontent with the increase in passenger
fares, and demanded the resignation of Dinesh
Trivedi, Railway Minister. Roy was handed additional charge of the Railway Ministry after Trivedi resigned, Mamata expressed her desire that
her party retain the Railway
Ministry and personally recommended Roy to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. He served as a Minister
of State in the Railway Ministry with Manmohan Singh serving as
the Cabinet Minister (pro
tem)
Roy was the
second man in All India Trinamool Congress Party, after Mamata Banerjee. He was
known for creating factions in other political parties and bringing them in
TMC’s fold. He was called ‘Chele-dhora’ amongst other political parties for
this activity. Many media report says that he has organized the controversial
meeting at Delo Pahaar. Before 2014 Lok Sabha Poll, Roy somehow managed to
build relationship with Anna Hazare and made Hazare say that he wants to see
Mamata as PM of India. He arranged a TMC Rally at Delhi with Anna Hazare, where
Hazare didn’t turn up! Needless to say the Rally flopped; only 2000 men
attended the rally! Mamata apparantly started keeping distance from Roy and
brought Abhishek Banerjee, her nephew, in TMC and sidelined Roy and Subhendu
Adhikary – Lok Sabha MP of Tamluk. Roy was last seen standing in a corner while
his party’s members were protesting on the stairs of Parliament, in this Winter
Session.
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