{"id":13696,"date":"2021-03-12T15:11:52","date_gmt":"2021-03-12T09:41:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/34.22.110.190\/english\/?p=13696"},"modified":"2021-03-12T15:11:52","modified_gmt":"2021-03-12T09:41:52","slug":"trinamools-madan-mitra-summoned-by-the-ed-in-saradha-chit-fund-probe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/trinamools-madan-mitra-summoned-by-the-ed-in-saradha-chit-fund-probe\/","title":{"rendered":"Trinamool&#8217;s Madan Mitra summoned by the ED in Saradha chit fund probe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trinamool Congress\u2019 former minister Madan Mitra has been summoned by the Enforcement Directorate in connection with the Saradha chit fund scam probe. He has been asked by the investigators to be present in the agency\u2019s office in Salt Lake\u2019s CGO complex on March 18. Mitra is the Trinamool Congress\u2019 candidate from Kamarhati for the coming Assembly polls.<\/p>\n<p>He was minister of two departments after winning from Kamarhati in 2011. Later, he was arrested in the Saradha case. In 2016, Mitra was fielded candidate from the same seat but he lost to the CPI(M)\u2019s Manas Mukherjee.<\/p>\n<p>Now, with Madan Mitra fielded as candidate again, the ED summons has led to Trinamool Congress alleging that the BJP at the Centre is using probe agencies to harass Bengal\u2019s ruling party\u2019s candidates and senior leadership.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trinamool Congress\u2019 former minister Madan Mitra has been summoned by the Enforcement Directorate in connection with the Saradha chit fund scam probe. He has been asked by the investigators to be present in the agency\u2019s office in Salt Lake\u2019s CGO complex on March 18. Mitra is the Trinamool Congress\u2019 candidate from Kamarhati for the coming [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1236,"featured_media":5910,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[387,375,410,792,234,583,46],"tmauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-13696","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-bengal","8":"tag-assembly-elections-2021","9":"tag-centre-state-relations","10":"tag-enforcement-directorate","11":"tag-madan-mitra","12":"tag-saradha-chit-fund-probe","13":"tag-top-story","14":"tag-trinamool-congress"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1236"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13696\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13696"},{"taxonomy":"tmauthors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tmauthors?post=13696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}