Ghosh, who along with two other MPs was served show-cause notices for anti-party comments, also demanded an intra-party inquiry panel to divulge information before the party leadership.
"I have sent a letter to party general secretary Mukul Roy stating I have many things to say before the party. I have demanded that an intra-party inquiry commission be set up so that I can register my statements before the party leadership, which can't be revealed before an administrative inquiry commission," Ghosh, who was till recently close to the party top leadership, said.
Meanwhile, senior party leader Partha Chatterjee, in a bid to send across a strong message to Ghosh and two other party MPs Satabdi Ray and Tapas Pal, said stern action would be taken against them, if needed.
"The party disciplinary committee has taken serious note of the anti-party comments made by Kunal Ghosh, Satabdi Ray and Tapas Pal. We are serving them show-cause notices. We won't tolerate any indiscipline. If needed, we will take stern steps against any kind of indiscipline," Chatterjee, the state industry minister, told a media conference.
Ghosh had last Friday made some comments at a public function along with the two Lok Sabha MPs that irked the party leadership which immediately decided to issue show-cause letters to them for alleged anti-party activity.
The three MPs shared the dais with another party MP Somen Mitra and his wife Sikha Mitra, a dissident TMC MLA.
Ghosh, who was talking to the media after coming out of the Bidhannagar Commissionerate here following a four-hour grilling in connection with the Saradha chit fund scam, said he was yet receive any show-cause notice from the party.
"Those who are saying that I have taken an anti-party stand are wrong. I am innocent. I have done nothing that would malign the party's leadership," Ghosh claimed, while reiterating his demand for a CBI probe into the scam.
When reminded that the ruling TMC was against a CBI probe into the scam, Ghosh said, "Let there be a CBI inquiry into at least my connection with the Saradha Group, which will bring out the fact that I was just an employee of the group and have done no wrong."
Earlier in the day, Ghosh said, "If the police wants to arrest me, it can do so. Before the arrest, I will seek permission to conduct a press conference. I have a lot of things to say."
Ghosh was summoned to the commissionerate for interrogation this morning for the second consecutive day. He was grilled for four hours yesterday, just a day after he made the statements at the public function.
Reacting to statements by a section of the TMC leadership terming him a "politician without a popular base" and an "opportunist", Ghosh said, "I hear a lot of statements from various sections. I will like to say that I have also been a part of the struggle that Mamata Banerjee had waged during the Singur and Nandigram movement."
Bidhannagar police said Ghosh was summoned for questioning in order to verify several facts that had come up during the Saradha investigation since April.
"If needed, he (Ghosh) may be summoned again (for questioning)," said Aranab Ghosh, DC (DD), Bidhannagar police commissionerate.
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