TMC MPs protest misuse of Mamata Banerjee’s name in scam

New Delhi: Trinamul Congress MPs on Tuesday vociferously protested in Lok Sabha after BJP MP Kirit Somaiya alleged that West Bengal chief minister’s address was misused in a “shell company scam”.

TMC lawmakers stormed the Well of the House and demanded that the reference to the ‘address’ be expunged from the records.

After the BJP MP Kirit Somaiya levelled the allegation while referring to the scam, almost all TMC MPs rose from their seats and vociferously protested the charges, calling them “totally baseless”. They shouted slogans against the Central government and then trooped into the Well of the House.

Earlier during the Zero Hour, Mr Somaiya alleged that a politician in Bihar had links with the scam relating to shell companies in the state.

He alleged that a similar scam had taken place in West Bengal and that it had been found that the address of the chief minister was given by the shell company during its registration. He even hinted at the alleged involvement of the chief minister’s nephew in the scam.

The TMC MPs took strong objection to the comments and demanded that the Speaker should expunge them from the records.

Interestingly, just before the furore, Trinamul Congress MP Saugata Roy during Zero Hour, alluding to usage of money power, said that in Uttar Pradesh, two SP and one BSP MLCs resigned from the Legislative Council to pave way for the chief minister’s election in the Assembly.  The BJP recently stormed to power in Uttar Pradesh, where it won a comfortable two-thirds majority in the state Assembly.