Sting on TMC leaders: Cong demands a probe

Congress today made a strong pitch for a probe in the wake of the sting operation purportedly showing several Trinamool leaders accepting money to help a fictitious private firm in poll-bound West Bengal.
"An impartial probe should be held in the matter. It could be a House Committee or CBI probe," party spokesman Pramod Tewari told reporters.
Insisting that West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee owed an explanation to the nation on the issue, he dismissed TMC's claim that the whole thing was a "political conspiracy".
"When Saradha chitfund scam had broken, they had spoken in a similar vein," he said, adding that BJP too talks of such conspiracies when faced with such controversies.

He suggested that there was no need for an investigation if the sting was a genuine operation.
Dubbing the sting operation by a news portal as "manufactured", TMC is accusing its detractors of hatching a "political conspiracy" ahead of the Assembly elections.
Asked about Enforcement Directorate taking into custody NCP leader Chhagan Bhujbal who was Deputy Chief Minister in Congress-led coalition in Maharashtra, Tewari said "the law should be allowed to take its own course".