West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar has given his approval to the CBI to prosecute four erstwhile ministers of the Mamata Banerjee government in the Narada tapes scandal.
Two of the former ministers now facing CBI prosecution will be sworn in on Monday by the Governor himself. Subrata Mukherjee and Firhad Hakim were named in a list of 43 ministers released on Sunday.
The two other former ministers whom the Governor has now cleared for prosecution are Madan Mitra and Sovan Chatterjee.
The timing of the sanction raises eyebrows as it come on the eve of the new Cabinet taking oath and also because Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla is yet to sanction the prosecution of Suvendu Adhikari, former Trinamool minister who is now a BJP MLA from Nandigram.