India, May 1 -- West Bengal governor CV Ananda Bose on Wednesday granted permission to the enforcement directorate (ED) to prosecute former education minister Partha Chatterjee and Trinamool Congress (TMC) MLA Manik Bhattacharya in connection with alleged irregularities in the recruitment of school teachers and non-teaching staff in the state.

"On April 30, Governor has sanctioned prosecution of Chatterjee, the then state education minister and Bhattacharya, the then president of the West Bengal Board of Primary Education in ED case," an official from the Raj Bhavan said on Thursday.

Chatterjee was the state education minister from 2014 to 2021 and the alleged irregularities took place in 2018.

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