New Delhi: Senior Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader Dinesh
Trivedi on Friday said that if he were his party’s head, then he would have
suggested that the MPs, who are purportedly seen accepting money from a
fictitious company in a sting operation, should “sit at home till the time they
come out clean” from charges leveled against them.
At
a panel discussion hosted by industry body CII in Delhi, Trivedi said: “Let's
say if I were head of the party, I would have just said - You come out clean
and tell us what it is. And till the time you are clear, you sit at home.” “If
Mamata did that, she would've swept the elections,” he further added.
Trivedi,
however, said the accused politicians should ask for a probe if they felt they
had “not done anything”. He added that the party's “top and bottom” — Mamata and
the grass-root workers, respectively — were “honest”.
On
Saturday, Mamata Banerjee repeated her stand about the purported sting being a
conspiracy. Lawyers led by a TMC MP this week requested Calcutta High Court not
to pass any pre-poll order on petitions seeking a CBI probe because that may
"prejudice the prospect of the candidates".
Trivedi did not
comment on the video clips' authenticity, saying that the matter was sub
judice. Trivedi, Sugata Bose and Moon Moon Sen had earlier wondered aloud at a
meeting of TMC MPs last week why the party was not coming clean on the matter. Today's
comments by Trivedi underscored how TMC was speaking in multiple voices on the
subject.
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