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TMC MP arrested in chit fund scam, violence breaks out

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CBI, on Tuesday, arrested Trinamool Congress Lok Sabha leader Sudip Bandyopadhyay in Rose Valley chit fund scam, which rocked West Bengal in 2014.

A furious Mamata Banerjee, chief minister of West Bengal, declared that she would launch a major agitation against the vindictive policies of Narendra Modi. She called all her MPs to a meeting to decide on future course of action.

Post the incident, violence broke out across Bengal — TMC members entered BJP party office and threw stones at the activists. BJP workers retaliated with lathis.

"Arrest Narendra Modi and Amit Shah," Mamata said, after the arrest. "Who paid for his Rs 10 crore suit?" she said.

CBI claimed that they had enough evidence to prove that Bandyopadhyay, a former minister of UPA government, took money from Rose Valley group, another big defunct chit fund company like Saradha group.

They had, last year, arrested Gautam Kundu, the emperor of Rose Valley group, which had businesses scattered across the West Bengal, Tripura, Bihar, Odisha and Kerala.

Bandyopadhyay, reportedly, was very close to Kundu and took money from him on many occasions.

A furious Mamata Banerjee, chief minister of West Bengal, declared that she would launch a major agitation against the vindictive policies of Narendra Modi. She called all her MPs to a meeting to decide on future course of action.

Bandyopadhya’s arrests come days after the arrest of another MP, Tapas Paul, a former screen star of Bengali movie.

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