B'desh railway minister resigns over midnight cash scandal
April 16, 2012  13:57

And Bangladesh doesn't even have a Mamata Banerjee.

The country's embattled Railway Minister Suranjit Sengupta today resigned from his post four months after assuming office following the last week's midnight cash scandal. 

"I am resigning for the sake of impartial investigations," he said at a press conference, referring to the controversy surrounding the recovery of huge stashes of cash from the car of his assistant personal secretary. 

Sengupta, a veteran parliamentarian and senior leader of the ruling Awami League, said he was resigning to set an example in the "country's 40 years of history" accepting "the blames of all failures in my shoulder".

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