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SUBHAS IN PARTY COURT 

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Staff Reporter Published 06.07.01, 12:00 AM
Calcutta, July 6 :    Calcutta, July 6:  The CPM state leadership today summoned transport minister Subhas Chakraborty to the party headquarters on Alimuddin Street and reprimanded him over the stadium scandal. Chakraborty was present at the state secretariat meeting this morning which discussed the arrest of criminals from Salt Lake Stadium on June 26. The CPM also took up the report the minister had submitted on the scandal. CPM state secretary Anil Biswas told reporters that chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee would have the final say on this issue. But he did not rule out a party inquiry into the issue. 'The CID is investigating the case, let them submit the report. Then we will decide our future course of action,' Biswas said when asked if the party was planning to hold any inquiry into the episode that also involved Chakraborty. Biswas also skirted a question on whether the minister would lose the sports portfolio. 'It is the chief minister who will speak to you on this. But I can't tell you when and where the chief minister will brief you,' he said. Chakraborty has been under fire after police rounded up 16 people during a swoop on the Salt Lake Stadium hostel, the sports minister's fief. Four of them were later arrested and arms and ammunition seized from them. Sources said senior CPM leaders today asked Chakraborty to establish his claim that a section of party leaders and police officers had conspired against him and organised the raid at the stadium in his absence. Chakraborty had also pointed at a nexus between sections of the police and the party in his report to the CPM top brass. Though Biswas refused to say whether the party was satisfied with Chakraborty's report, it is learnt that most secretariat members did not accept his allegation. The sports minister, however, sought time from the party leadership, saying he would prove it. Chakraborty told some of his close associates in the party's North 24-Parganas district unit that he was satisfied with this morning's meeting. 'I think most of the secretariat members are convinced that a section of less important district party leaders hatched the conspiracy against me. The party is not going to initiate any action against me immediately,' he told them. Imphal visit A team of Left Front MPs, led by CPM leader Somnath Chatterjee, will visit Imphal tomorrow. CPM politburo member Biman Bose said the team will go to Imphal to make an on-the-spot study on the situation there. The Left MPs who will visit Imphal are Subodh Roy, Bajuban Riyang, Nikhilananda Sar, Ajoy Chakraborty and Birsingh Mahato, Bose said.    
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