Who is Partha Chatterjee who just got arrested by ED in Bengal teacher recruitment scam

West Bengal minister Partha Chatterjee was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Saturday morning after hours of ED grilling in connection with an alleged teacher recruitment scam.

West Bengal Commerce and Industries Department minister and heavyweight TMC leader Partha Chatterjee was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Saturday morning after being questioned for over 24 hours in connection with an alleged recruitment scam in state-run schools. His close aide Arpita Mukherjee has also been detained by the agency.

The current minister of the Commerce and Industries Department and former Education Minister of West Bengal, Chatterjee is also the West Bengal General Secretary of the All India Trinamool Congress.

Partha Chatterjee also holds the portfolio of Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs. From 2014 till 2021, Chatterjee was the Education Minister in Mamata Banerjee's cabinet.

In 2001, Partha Chatterjee was elected as an MLA from Behala Paschim on a Trinamool Congress ticket and has been holding the South Kolkata seat since then. Before Mamata Banerjee's party formed the government in 2011, Chatterjee was Leader of the Opposition in the West Bengal Legislative Assembly from 2006 to 2011.

As Mamata Banerjee won a second term in 2016, he became the Minister-in-Charge of Higher Education and School Education Department, West Bengal Government and the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Public Enterprises, Information Technology and Electronics, replaced by Amit Mitra.

Chatterjee worked as a HR professional with Andrew Yule, after his completion of MBA from Calcutta University. He is also the chairman of Naktala Udayan Durga Puja Committee in Kolkata, which is famous for its themed pandals and draws lakhs of pandal hoppers in Puja.