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Ritabrata Banerjee's expulsion was inevitable: Sitaram Yechury

However, CPI(M) national general secretary said that probe panel should have consisted of at least one woman.

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On his visit to Kolkata on Wednesday, CPI(M) national general secretary Sitaram Yechury said that the committee which decided to expel former party Rajya Sabha MP Ritabrata Banerjee should have comprised at least one woman member.

“Since the complaints against him was by some women and since we are for women’s reservation everywhere so it would have been better if there was at least one woman member in the commission which was investigating charges against Banerjee,” he said while interacting with mediapersons.

He added that Banerjee had been projected as the face of youth leadership within the party and thus was given several scopes to mend his ways. “His rise within the party had been meteoric but looking at all the aspects the decision to ouster him was inevitable,” he said.

Banerjee had, later in a TV interview levelled several allegations against party MP Md Salim who was the head of the commission which was investigating his case. To that Yechury said that he started alleging once the decision of the committee was spelt out. Again, Banerjee had alleged that he was not allowed to spend his MPLAD fund. To that Yechury said, “The MPs never spent the money. Officers of different projects through the nodal agencies spend the fund.”

He also pointed out the recent elections at Delhi University and JNU and said that the countdown of Modi government has begun and that people need to come together against the Central government misrule. “There is a need to create and strengthen an alternative political narrative to Modi’s narrative and for that it is required to mobilise people against the anti-people policies,” he added.

On Rohingya Muslims being tagged as terrorists in the affidavit of the Centre to the Supreme Court he said that the issue of fighting terrorism was non-negotiable as far as the CPI(M) was concerned but tagging the entire community as terrorists was not acceptable.

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