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SUBHAS ISSUE WIDENS RIFT IN CPM PANEL 

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Staff Reporter Published 23.05.99, 12:00 AM
Calcutta, May 23 :     The two-day meeting of the CPM?s North 24-Parganas district committee, which ended today, witnessed an unruly scene over the district secretariat?s proposal to remove Subhas Chakraborty from the committee. Chakraborty, the ?controversial? transport minister, and his associate, housing minister Goutam Deb, had boycotted the meet. District secretary Amitava Bose reportedly told the members that they had no right to oust Chakraborty from the district panel since he was a state committee member. ?But we can certainly convey our feelings to the state leadership,? he added. The latest faction feud in the North 24-Parganas unit has been triggered off by the alleged involvement of some leaders in the Beni Engineering bribery case. Chakraborty had said in a television interview that some secretariat members received favours from Beni Engineering owner Ganesh Singhania. After the interview was aired, the secretariat adopted a resolution seeking the CPM state unit?s nod to oust Chakraborty from the district committee. He has already been dropped from the district secretariat. At the secretariat?s meeting on Wednesday, member Amiya Mukherjee demanded Chakraborty?s removal, arguing that the minister had tarnished the CPM?s image by speaking to a private television channel. Mukherjee also cited the allegations made by Chakraborty against secretariat members. The secretariat agreed with the removal demand, but the state leadership is yet to give the green light to the proposal. CPM state secretary Anil Biswas today said the party had constituted an inquiry committee comprising Chittabrata Majumder, Dipen Ghosh and Kali Ghosh ? all Citu leaders ? to look into the issue. It may be mentioned that a Citu leader of the North 24-Parganas district, Lakshmi Chatterjee, was caught red-handed while taking Rs 1 lakh from a representative of Singhania in a city restaurant last month. His arrest rocked the CPM and many leaders felt that Chatterjee was the victim of intra-party feud in the district unit. Chatterjee was suspended, but the CPM did not expel him due to differences among the leaders.    
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