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Rose Valley Amtali and Agartala prime land at subsidized price : Sudip pulls down Manik's CLEAN image for patronizing Chit Funds, demands CBI probe
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Rose Valley Amtali and Agartala prime land at  subsidized price : Sudip pulls down Manik's CLEAN image for patronizing Chit Funds, demands CBI probe
PHOTO : Opposition leader Sudip Roy Barman's press conference at Kolkata Press Club. TIWN Pic April 6

AGARTALA / KOLKATA, April 7 (TIWN): Barman claimed that Chief Minister Manik Sarkar has been fooling the people of the state by stating he was not aware of the illegal trade of the Rose Valley chit fund company. Earlier denying the allegation of Barman, Sarkar indicated, "I along with Congress legislator Dilip Sarkar attended the inaugural function of the Rose Valley park in July 2008. At that time, I was not aware that the Rose Valley group is a chit fund organization." But the statement of Badal Chowdhury recently made it crystal clear that the so called clean imaged Manik sarkar inspite of his knowledge had attended the inauguration programme of rose valley at Amtali. Accusing the Manik Sarkar government in Tripura of "shielding" and "benefitting" from Rose Valley, a ponzi firm under scanner for money laundering, the opposition Congress on Monday demanded a CBI probe into the activities of all illegal non-banking financial firms and chit fund groups in the state. Manik Sarkar was instrumental in arranging prime land for Rose Valley at subsidiized rate. Addressing a press conference at Kolkata Press Club, Leader of Opposition in the Tripura assembly Sudip Roy Burman said Sarkar and his ministers have encouraged people to invest in ponzi schemes of Rose Valley, whose chairman Gautam Kundu is in custody for alleged money laundering.

"The Tripura chief minister and other ministers have been present at functions of the Rose Valley Group and various other chit fund companies. Their praise for the company encouraged people to invest in such schemes. What prompted the chief minister to speak in favour of Rose Valley?" asked Burman.

While the government had written to the CBI for probing the chit fund scam, Burman claimed it "deliberately did not specify the amount of money involved in the scam while writing to the CBI to probe the Rose Valley Group in 2013, only to ensure that it was not investigated".

"We demand a CBI probe into the activities of all illegal non-banking financial companies (NBFCs) and chit fund organisations in Tripura," said Burman alleging that chit fund companies flourished whenever the Left Front was in power in the state.

"Democracy is being throttled in Tripura and it is a one-man show there," he added.

Sarkar, a Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) politburo member, had earlier denied his government's involvement in the Rose Valley group after Burman published photographs of the Marxist leader attending an event of the company.

Refuting the charges of giving land to rose valley Minister Badal Chowdhury said, “The govt. has not given any land to rose valley as reported in a section of media. In course it has come to the limelight that the rose valley has illegally acquired a land in Amtali to set up the park.

” However talking on this issue today Barman said, “I thank Badal Chowdhury for highlighting the fact, but here what would CM say that he was not aware of it again?” well! To comment here this would been an another mistake for Manik Sarkar because “Rose valley has encroached 13.40 acres of land to make Rose Valley Park and the revenue department here has already initiated legal action against the chit fund companies,” claimed CM’s Minister Badal Chowdhury recently.

"Chief Minister Manik Sarkar, several ministers and CPI-M leaders had on a number of occasions attended the functions of chit fund organizations inspite of the knowledge that Rose Valley is a chit fund company," Barman reiterated today.

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