The Trinamool Congress on Tuesday showed the copy of a page from the Jain hawala dairy to buttress Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s claim that Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar “is a corrupt man.” The scam was unearthed in 1996.

Senior party MP Sukhendu Shekhar Roy on Tuesday showed pages from an alleged diary of the prime accused wondering the name Dhankhar mentioned in it and the Governor were the same persons.

“I can show you this page of a diary that contains several names and the last name is that of one Dhankhar against which a numerical figure of ‘5’ is written … I am no expert but I want to ask whether this Dhankhar and our Governor Dhankhar are the same persons … It is for the Dhankhars to clarify,” Roy said adding “many journalists say that he was involved in a hawala deal that took place in Dubai and London.”

Claiming further that the money thus distributed through hawala was funded by terror group Hijb ul Mujahideen as a part of its liaison in the political circles Roy said “where issues of corruption and national security are involved it needs to be thoroughly investigated.”

The Opposition BJP however hit back saying Banerjee’s “all out attack against the Governor only proves that he has touch a weak spot of TMC by deciding to order a CAG probe into the finances of Gorkhaland Territorial Authority.”

The Chief Minister on Monday launched a scathing attack on the Governor saying “he is a corrupt man,” whose name was involved in the Jain hawala case.

“He is a corrupt man. He was named in the charge sheet in the 1996 Hawala Jain case. Why has the central government allowed a governor like this to continue?” she said adding, “If the central government has no information that the governor was named in the charge sheet, I am telling them now. They should find it out.”

Banerjee also said that she had thrice written to the Centre seeking removal of the Governor “but they have done nothing about that… I have not seen such a governor in my life. But, as per the Constitution, I will continue to meet him, talk to him and follow the courtesies till he is here.”

Her Monday’s remarks came close on the heels of the Governor pointing at financial irregularities worth crores in GTA and said he was authorizes to order a CAG audit into it.

Within hours of the Chief Minister making the hawala remarks the Governor came out with a counterstatement iterating, “She has made some allegations of very serious nature … that the Governor of Bengal was chargesheeted in Hawala Jain case … these are most unfortunate … your Governor had never been chargesheeted … there is no such documents … this is plain and simple untruth … misinformation … I have never expected this from a senior politician.”

When asked as to whether he would sue the Chief Minister for making such remarks, he said he would not, as in Indian culture “younger sisters are not sued against.”

Meanwhile in a related development social activist Vineet Narain --- known for exposing the hawala racket case --- on Tuesday supported the Chief Minister’s contention saying the Governor should resign on moral grounds saying “since there was no trial, how can one be acquitted?”