These days, Mamata Banerjee government in West Bengal is under severe pressure regarding the investigation of coal scam. Mamata Banerjee has come into the role of patronage for I-PACK, a company that prepares election strategies. Enforcement Directorate (ED) officials were conducting raids on January 8 in a case related to the coal scam. ED officials also reached the house of company chief Prateek Jain. Mamata Banerjee stood with her entire team to stop the central agencies at both the places.
Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee reached the Kolkata house of IPAC chief Prateek Jain, clashed with ED officials and stopped the action. Mamata Banerjee had then claimed that ED officials wanted to seize the hard disk, internal documents and sensitive data of Trinamool Congress. He rejected it as a political raid and unconstitutional. BJP is now accusing Mamata Banerjee of patronizing corruption.
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Ministers and officials of the Mamata Banerjee government of West Bengal have been accused of many serious scams since 2011 till now, due to which every election gets spoiled.
Saradha Chitfund Scam: When will investors get their money?
Sharda Group was a group of more than 200 private companies. Sudipto Sen has been described as the mastermind of the scam. Was running in the name of chit fund and collective investment scheme. People were promised high returns. More than 17 lakh investors got trapped in this scam, the total scam was more than Rs 2500 crore. Many investors, agents and employees committed suicide. Leaders of parties like TMC, Congress and CPI (M) were accused in this scam. In this, names of many big leaders associated with TMC were mentioned. People like Madan Mitra, Kunal Ghosh, Srinjoy Bose, Sudipto Sen and Debjani Mukherjee have been close to Mamata Banerjee. Many accused are in jail, ED has attached properties and auctioned them. Most investors were disappointed.
Rose Valley Chit Fund Scam, people waiting for justice
Rose Valley Chit Fund Scam: Rose Valley Scam has been one of the popular chit fund scams of West Bengal. Rose Valley Group had run a Ponzi scheme through more than 20 companies. Hotel memberships, shares in land, expensive interest were promised. This came to light after the Saradha scam in 2013. Around Rs 17,000-17,520 crore was collected from lakhs of people in West Bengal, Assam and Bihar. Union Minister of State Pankaj Chaudhary had handed over a demand draft of more than Rs 515 crore to DK Seth, Chairman of the Asset Disposal Committee, so that the victims could get relief.
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Narada sting operation scam, which shook TMC
Narada Sting Operation Scam: This sting operation, which took place between 2014 and 2016, brought a lot of infamy to TMC. In the Narada sting operation, TMC leaders were recorded on camera taking bribes, the investigation of which was handed over to the CBI. Hero of Narada Sting was Mathew Samuel. In 2016, videos of 12 Trinamool Congress leaders including Firhad Hakim, Subrata Mukherjee, Madan Mitra, Sovan Chatterjee were released. CBI released the video of this case by Tehelka. CBI had registered FIR in 2017. ED is also investigating this case.
SSC Scam: Many big names, innocent people also got trapped along with the criminals.
West Bengal SSC scam came to light in the year 2016. WBSSC faced allegations of massive irregularities in the recruitment of 24,640 teacher and non-teacher posts. There were 25,753 appointments among 23 lakh candidates, which was more than the posts. Tampering of OMR sheets, fake merit lists and appointments made by taking bribes came to light. Calcutta High Court canceled all the appointments. In April 2025, the Supreme Court upheld this and ordered fresh recruitment. Many TMC leaders, including former education minister Partha Chatterjee, are implicated in the CBI investigation. Mamta Banerjee calls this wrong but serious allegations of corruption have been made in this case.
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Primary teacher recruitment scam, a serious matter, which was buried
In 2016, the West Bengal Board of Primary Education (WBBPE) appointed thousands of primary teachers on the basis of the 2014 TET panel. Allegations of massive irregularities and cash-for-jobs scams soon followed. 140 unsuccessful candidates filed the petition in 2022, claiming that candidates with low marks and untrained candidates were appointed illegally. In May 2023, Justice Gangopadhyay’s bench canceled 32,000 appointments and ordered fresh recruitment for only 2,016 candidates. Later the Division Bench and the Supreme Court banned it. In December 2025, the Calcutta High Court overturned the 2023 order. But Mamata Banerjee government got a lot of flak.
Coal smuggling, on which Mamata Banerjee and ED got into trouble
This controversy is once again in discussion. On January 8, ED had raided the premises of I-PAC and its director Prateek Jain in the money laundering case related to the coal theft scam in West Bengal. This investigation is related to the 2020 CBI FIR, which accused the syndicate led by Anoop Majhi of illegal coal mining and sale from ECL areas. According to ED, out of the ill-gotten gains of Rs 2,742 crore, Rs 20 crore was transferred through hawala to I-PAC for its Goa operations. Mamta Banerjee is on target of BJP, Congress and Left regarding this scam.
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