What did Mamta say about the bribe taken by her father?
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: Initiating a major clean-up exercise in the ranks of her party, Trinamool chief Mamata Banerjee warned councillors on Tuesday against taking "cut money and kickbacks" from government schemes, while also admitting of "making mistakes" in distribution of tickets, including one given to a "father's son". Mamata did not name TMC rebel-turned-BJP leader Mukul Roy, instrumental in engineering defections of MLAs and councillors to BJP, or his son Subhrangshu Roy (who too defected to BJP). However, coming on the same day when Mukul Roy engineered yet another defection of a TMC MLA (Bongaon North) Biswajit Das to BJP, the reference was clear.
"Now only dedicated workers will get tickets. The father-son combine used to manage tickets all through.
We have no problem giving tickets to family members if they remain loyal to the party. Earlier, district leaders used to nominate their own people; many genuine members were deprived because of this," the CM said.
"Trinamool is not a weak party. I don't care if 15-20 councillors leave the party after accepting cash. MLAs, too, may leave the party. We are not going to take them back. We don't want thieves in our party. We will replace each defector with 500 people," she said.
Around 80 civic bodies will elect boards this year.
Mukul Roy shot back from Delhi. "She is talking about many things now, but that won't stop councillors from joining BJP. I can tell you Mamata's family is the fountainhead of corruption in Bengal,"he said.
The CM said she has received complaints about corruption even with the Samabyathi scheme involving a one-time payment of Rs 2,000 to the poor to perform last rites of the dead.
"Some have asked for Rs 200 from beneficiaries," she said. The CM said that she had strengthened the economic offences wing and corruption victims could write to the CMO directly.