KOLKATA: Aparupa Poddar, Trinamool Congress MP from Arambagh, on Thursday reportedly confessed that she had taken money from Narada News boss Mathew Samuel (posing as businessman Santosh Sankaran ) before the 2014 Lok Sabha election. The MP cooperated with the investigators and claimed that she had been working under the guidance of the Khanakul MLA Iqbal Ahmed. She claimed that before she accepted the money from Samuel, she had talked to Ahmed regarding that. While Samuel had allegedly promised to pay her Rs 5 lakh, she was finally handed over Rs 3 lakh. "We are not getting into whether she had promised any favour in return or not.

Source: Times of India October 05, 2017 21:22 UTC