The ED had arrested Chatterjee, who is also TMC secretary general, on Saturday.
“Partha Chatterjee, minister in charge, department of industry, commerce and enterprises, department of information technology and electronics, department of parliamentary affairs and department of public enterprises and industrial reconstruction, is hereby relieved of his duties as MIC of the aforesaid department with immediate effect,” an official order said.
Meanwhile, Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee will look after industry, other portfolios held by the sacked minister for the time being, reported PTI quoting officials.
ED has also arrested Chatterjee’s close associate Arpita Mukherjee, and seized crores of rupees from her houses in different parts of the city.
Who is Partha Chatterjee?
— Chatterjee, 69, held the portfolios of commerce and industry, parliamentary affairs, information technology and electronics, and public enterprises & industrial reconstruction in the state cabinet.
— Chatterjee, also the secretary-general of the Trinamool Congress, stepped into politics as a leader of Congress students’ wing — Chatra Parishad — in the late sixties during his college years.
— He decided to take a plunge into active politics after Banerjee broke away from the…
