Calcutta, July 29: Trinamul Congress MP Kunal Ghosh today said he could not be faulted for what his employer at the Saradha Group had done just as he could not be blamed if his previous employer had done something at Haldia port.

“Ami chakri korechhi. Jantam na chit fund. Ki kore janbo malik ki korchhe? Ami aage jekhane chakri korechhi, dekhini Haldia-te sei malik kono kichhu korechhe kina (I was doing a job. Didn’t know it was a chit fund. How would I know what the employer was doing? At the company where I worked earlier, I never tried to find out whether the employer did anything at Haldia),” Ghosh told an event organised by a citizens’ forum at Sukeas Street, a north Calcutta neighbourhood where he lives.

Ghosh’s former employer is Srinjoy Bose, the owner-editor of the newspaper Sambad Pratidin.

Swapan Sadhan Bose, the father of Srinjoy and former Trinamul Rajya Sabha MP, is associated with Ripley, a manual cargo handler at Haldia port.

Mechanised cargo handler Haldia Bulk Terminals had quit the port last year, citing labour unrest laced with political undertones. HBT had also alleged that some of its employees had been abducted.

Allegations had been made that a large chunk of the cargo at Haldia was being diverted to entrenched manual handlers.

Srinjoy tonight declined comment on Ghosh’s remarks.

The names of Ghosh and Srinjoy had appeared together in Saradha Group owner Sudipta Sen’s purported letter to the CBI. Ghosh was at one time the editor of both Pratidin and the newspapers and TV channels floated by Sen.

At today’s programme, Ghosh said he first got associated with the Saradha Group on behalf of Sambad Pratidin.

“Sambad Pratidin ekta tie-up kore Saradha-r shonge ekta channel-er jonno. Dosh amar ekar noy (Sambad Pratidin had tied up with Saradha for a television channel. I’m not the only one to blame),” he said.

Ghosh, who was the executive chairman of Saradha’s media wing, alleged he had been “framed” in the Saradha deposit mobilisation default case.

He claimed Sen had not written to the CBI on his own.

“Sudipta Sen CBI-ke chithi nije lekhe ni. Amar kandhe bonduk rakhar jonno, onyo keu eta likhieyechhe (Sudipta Sen didn’t write the letter on his own. Somebody made him write the letter to frame me),” Ghosh said. He, however, refused to name the people who had possibly made Sen write the letter.

Ghosh denied the allegation made in the purported letter that he had signed any voucher or financial document.