TMC writes to Ansari for separate seat for Kunal in House

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Press Trust of India Kolkata
Last Updated : Dec 05 2013 | 11:42 PM IST
The Trinamool Congress has requested vice-president and Rajya Sabha Chairman Hamid Ansari for separate seating arrangement for suspended party MP Kunal Ghosh, now under arrest in connection with the Saradha scam.
"The Trinamool Congress Parliamentary Party has written to the Rajya Sabha Chairman Hamid Ansari that Ghosh has been suspended from the party. The chairman was also requested to reallocate his seat in the House, away from the group of TMC members," a party MP told PTI.
The party has nine Rajya Sabha members, including Ghosh. He was suspended for anti-party activities in September after he made unsavoury remarks against it while sharing dais with dissident party MP Somen Mitra and suspended MLA Shikha Mitra.
He has been insisting on a CBI probe to unravel the alleged role of other party leaders in the Saradha ponzi scam.
Ghosh headed the media business of Saradha Group, a number of newspapers and news channels, which were abruptly closed down in April after the scam was unearthed.
He was arrested on November 23 and charged under sections 420 (cheating), 406 (criminal breach of trust) and 120B (conspiracy) of the IPC.
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First Published: Dec 05 2013 | 11:42 PM IST

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