Congress minister demands CBI enquiry into chit-fund scam

Admitting that it was a mistake on his part to have written to the Prime Minister supporting the chit fund operator Saradha Group last year, Union Minister A H Khan Chowdhury today supported CBI investigation in the scandal and offered to quit.
"CBI should investigate the matter and alongside my role in the scam should also be investigated. Only then the truth would come out that Trinamool leaders took money from Saradha," Chowdhury told reporters here.
The Trinamool Congress has sought his resignation for his alleged links with the Sarada group.
"If proved that I have taken money from them then I am ready to quit," the Union Minister of State for Health said.

Admitting that he had written to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, he said, "I had written about their real estate business and not about chit-funds. It seems to me now that it was a mistake on my part".
The minister insisted he had no clue about the financial irregularities in the Saradha group.
In one of the three letters to the Prime Minister in March last year, Chowdhury gave a clean chit to Saradha saying it was "in compliance with all mandatory and legal guidelines of the Companies Act and without any noted violation of the Ministry of Corporate Affairs".