Demanding an intra-party inquiry panel where he may express his views before the party leadership, Trinamool Congress MP Kunal Ghosh today threatened to "reveal many things" if he was arrested in the Saradha chit fund case.
"I have sent a letter to party general secretary Mukul Roy stating I have many things to say before the party. I have demanded that an intra-party inquiry commission be set up so that I can register my statements before the party leadership, which can't be revealed before an administrative inquiry commission," Ghosh said.
Ghosh, who had last Friday been issued a show-cause notice by TMC for anti-party comments along with fellow party MPs Satabdi Ray and Tapas Pal, was talking to the media after coming out of the Bidhannagar Commissionerate here following four hours' grilling in connection with the chit fund case.
Ghosh has claimed he was yet to receive any show-cause notice.
"Those who are saying that I have taken an anti-party stand are wrong. I am innocent. I have done nothing that would malign the party's leadership," Ghosh said, reiterating his demand for a CBI inquiry into the scam.
When reminded that the ruling TMC was against a CBI probe into the scam, Ghosh said, "Let there be a CBI inquiry into at least my connection with the Saradha Group, which will bring out the fact that I was just an employee of the group and have done no wrong."
Earlier in the day, Ghosh said, "If police want to arrest me, they can do so. Before the arrest, I will seek permission to conduct a press conference. I have a lot of things to say."
He was summoned to the commissionerate for interrogation this morning for the second consecutive day. He was grilled for four hours yesterday.
Reacting to statements by a section of the TMC leadership terming him a "politician without a popular base" and an "opportunist", Ghosh said, "I hear a lot of statements from various sections. I will like to say that I have also been a part of the struggle that Mamata Banerjee had waged during the Singur and Nandigram movement."
Bidhannagar police said Ghosh was summoned for questioning in order to verify several facts that had come up during the Saradha investigation since April.
"If needed, he (Ghosh) may be summoned again (for questioning)," said Aranab Ghosh, DC (DD), Bidhannagar Police Commissionerate.
