On a backfoot following the arrest of Sports and Transport Minister Madan Mitra in Saradha chit fund scam, state Parliamentary Affairs Minister Partha Chatterjee on Friday questioned why the CBI is not arresting CPM leaders, during whose rule, such companies mushroomed in the state. Without naming the CPM, Chatterjee — who led a delegation to meet Governor K N Tripathi on Friday — said those involved in mushrooming of chit fund business in Bengal were now taking out rallies and shedding crocodile tears. After meeting the governor, he said: “The Supreme Court has asked the CBI to investigate the scam. But in the name of investigation, the CBI is arresting only TMC leaders. If they feel that TMC leaders are culprits, let them chargesheet them. But the CBI is being used to crush our prestige.” “We have said that money should be returned to all people who have lost their deposits since 1980s in chit funds. Why the people under whose rule chit fund business started in state were not arrested?” he added.
