Agartala, March 3 -- The opposition Congress on Sunday demanded an impartial inquiry into the finances of TSECL, which has registered a huge amount of debt and a series of corruptions over the past five years.
The party president, Ashis Kumar Saha, alleged that TSECL had been a profit-making state PSU before the BJP-led government came to power in 2018. Soon after the appointment of the Managing Director of TSECL from Maharashtra, M. S. Kele, TSECL turned into a hub of corruption.
"At the behest of the then government, Kele looted crores of rupees through contractors and suppliers. TSECL paid more than 50 percent of the tender value before the inception of the work on several occasions, and in a few cases, contractors travelled with TSECL...