Kolkata, June 21 (IANS) Trinamool Congress Lok Sabha member from Krishnanagar constituency in Nadia district of West Bengal, Mahua Moitra, on Sunday, ridiculed the National Citizens Party of India (NCPI)’s claims of being “pro-poor” on the latter’s social media handle.

In her own social media post on Sunday, Moitra also expressed doubts about how long the NCPI will be able to retain its “pro-poor” image amid the joining of 20 rebel Trinamool Congress Lok Sabha members with the virtually non-existent Tripura-based political force.

“Introducing NCPI – the new party of the 20 MPs elected on @AITCofficial symbols. Its FB page says ‘it helps the poor people of our society’. Really hope it manages to help these 20 not-so-poor traitors too,” Moitra’s social media post read.

She is one of the few Trinamool Congress Lok Sabha members who are continuing with their allegiance to the former West Bengal Chief Minister, Mamata Banerjee and her nephew Abhishek Banerjee.

Since the 20 rebel Lok Sabha members under the leadership of four-time Lok Sabha members Dr Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar and Satabdi Roy broke away from the mother party and joined NCPI, Moitra has been the most vocal critic of the development, be it on social media or while speaking to media persons.

Meanwhile, Moitra has also been critical of the move to freeze three official bank accounts of Trinamool Congress by the state police. The accounts were frozen following a letter to the bank authorities concerned from the former Trinamool Congress treasurer and former West Bengal Minister, Aroop Biswas, requesting freezing of these bank accounts.

Biswas’ letter to the bank authorities followed police complaints by some rebel Trinamool Congress legislators in the Assembly alleging that money earned through corruption during the previous Mamata Banerjee-led regime was deposited in these bank accounts. Thereafter, the bank authorities decided to freeze debit transactions from these bank accounts.

Reacting to this allegation from the rebel MLAs, Moitra said that this rebel group, be they MPs or MLAs, should first clarify whether the funds provided to them by the party for meeting campaigning expenses in the recently concluded Assembly polls were “accounted” or “unaccounted”.

“If you think that you used unaccounted money in your campaign and also got elected, then it is your moral duty to resign from the chair. But I know that they will not resign. They are shameless people. They want to take benefits from both sides,” said Mahua Moitra.

–IANS

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