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Emphasising that his authorities is adopting a ‘zero tolerance’ argumentation connected corruption, West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari connected Wednesday (May 13, 2026) gave authorisation to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to prosecute officials allegedly progressive successful respective scams.
Mr. Adhikari gave authorisation to the CBI to prosecute officials progressive in the teacher’s recruitment scam, municipality recruitment scam and cooperative scam which had been withheld by the erstwhile Trinamool Congress government.
“The erstwhile authorities had kept this support connected clasp to prevention corrupt bureaucrats and officials. The CBI oregon immoderate different investigating bureau appointed by the tribunal has to instrumentality support from the authorities authorities arsenic per the instrumentality to guarantee punishment of corrupt officials oregon to record complaint sheets against them. We person fixed the indispensable support to the CBI to instrumentality enactment against corrupt officials of the 3 departments,” Mr. Adhikari said.
The Chief Minister said that the BJP authorities successful West Bengal has raised galore expectations and his authorities is adopting a ‘zero tolerance’ argumentation erstwhile it comes to corruption.
“Our enactment manifesto besides mentioned taking enactment against organization corruption. The radical of the authorities volition spot much steps successful that respect successful the coming days. We person started the work,” helium said. The teacher’s recruitment scam and the municipal recruitment scam had rocked the erstwhile Trinamool Congress government, resulting successful the apprehension of respective Trinamool leaders. On May 11, the Enforcement Directorate arrested erstwhile Trinamool Minister Sujit Bose successful a municipal recruitment scam.
In different development, the Chief Minister announced that the argumentation of the erstwhile authorities relating to a prohibition connected the merchantability of potatoes to different states stands lifted with contiguous effect.
“Potato farmers and murphy traders volition nary longer person to look harassment,” the Chief Minister said. After the terms of potatoes had crashed implicit the past fewer years, the Trinamool Congress had imposed a prohibition connected sending the state’s potatoes to different states. The constabulary and different authorities departments utilized to hunt the borderline areas of the State.
This twelvemonth West Bengal witnessed a bumper murphy harvest and this season, prices of the tuber fell, resulting successful the driblet of prices. This resulted successful wide agrarian distress and resulted successful the decision of the Trinamool Congress government. The BJP won 16 retired of 18 assembly seats successful the Hooghly district, which is 1 of the biggest producers of potatoes successful the State.
