CPI may expel tainted MLA

After an ad hoc committee set up the by state Assembly found CPI legislator from Nandigram, Shiek Illiyas Mahammad guilty, the party is considering to expel him.

After an ad hoc committee set up the by state Assembly found CPI legislator from Nandigram, Shiek Illiyas Mahammad guilty, the party is considering to expel him.

Though Illiyas has resigned from the Assembly, the party has conducted a separate inquiry, which revealed that he was engaged in several malpractices, CPI sources said.

Nandagopal Bhattacharya, CPI leader and state Minor

Irrigation Minister, said the party will take a final decision at its state secretariat meeting on Friday.

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In December 2007, a TV channel had shown Illiyas accepting a bribe of Rs 10,000 at the state legislators’ hostel in Kolkata from reporters of the channel.

They had posed as NGO officials, who approached the MLA for a certificate.

The committee went through the CDs and printouts of conversations between the reporters and Illiyas. The forensic reports had not established that after accepting a bundle of notes, the MLA signed on the certificate.

But according to the recorded conversation, it was clear that he had committed a breach of conduct, the committee noted.

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