Kolkata, November 16: Trinamool Congress Chief Mamata Banerjee today sought to play down the controversy created by party MP Kabir Suman’s statement charging his own party with corruption, saying it was a “small affair”.
“He is an artist and we want to accord him the status of an artist. He is our guest. He has not worked for the party before. We have welcomed Kabir Suman as a candidate of leftist ideology and civic society,” Banerjee told reporters here.
The popular singer-turned politician had yesterday said he was feeling “suffocated” in the party which he accused of indulging in corruption and not allowing him to work for the poor people of his constituency — South 24-Parganas district.
Equating the Trinamool Congress with the CPI(M), Suman even dared the party leadership to remove him from the party for his utterances.
–Agencies