Apprehending imminent arrest in the Saradha scam, suspended Trinamool Congress MP Kunal Ghosh on Friday said that he would reveal the names of party leaders to the police on Saturday and accusing a section of the party leadership of making him a scapegoat.
Ghosh, who said he was still loyal to the party and had not gone beyond party discipline or was involved in any anti-party activity, declared that he would give the names of several Trinamool Congress leaders to the police and the media on Saturday whether he was arrested or not.
The Rajya Sabha MP told a press conference that he would write to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh before his interrogation on Saturday demanding an immediate CBI probe into the scam.
He alleged that Saradha Group Chairman Sudipta Sen's letter to the CBI and his disappearance from the city was a part of the plot at the instruction of the party leadership.
"Police have been acting at the directive of the party. Instead of focusing on the Saradha chitfund scam, they are trying to make me a scapegoat by concentrating only on the group's media business and to cover up the scam," he alleged.
Claiming that the party's General Secretary Mukul Roy had "a very good relation" with the Commissioner of Bidhannagar Police Commissionerate Rajeev Kumar, he alleged, "He acts at Roy's directive".
The TC MP who broke down during the media conference said, "Those in the party for whom I worked, back-stabbed me after enjoying all the benefits from the Saradha group. Asked if he would resign from his Rajya Sabha membership, Ghosh said he had not thought about it.
"The DC(DD) of the Bidhannagar Police Commissionerate Arnab Ghosh told me that I will be arrested on Saturday if I fail to give whereabouts of the rest of the funds of the Saradha Group of Companies other than its media business. But I have no answer to the question," Ghosh said.
"But I have no answer to this since I was not involved with the company's transaction, except the media business. I had not even signed any cheque or transfer of accounts of the Company," Ghosh said.
The TMC MP, however, said that he would not ask for anticipatory bail, since he had not committed any crime.
"There are so many sections in the case and I am mentally prepared that I may have to be in police custody for next 5,000 days from Saturday, but I will not move for anticipatory bail," he said.
Ghosh, who was interrogated ten times, has been summoned again on Saturday.
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