Despite the BJP vice-presidential nominee oft addressing Mamata Banerjee as his “sister” Dhankhar and the Bengal Chief Minister had always shared a stormy chemistry ever since he joined as the Governor of the State in mid-2019.
While, the Governor had repeatedly raised the steadily deteriorating law and order situation and an increasing stranglehold of what he called “syndicate-mafia raj” marked by a culture of “cut-money and extortion” in the State, he was responded to in equally strong words even as the Chief Minister compared him to a horse and her Trinamool Congress called him an agent of the BJP. It all started when the Governor — much to the chagrin of the Chief Minister — personally went to Jadavpur University in 2019 to rescue the then Union Minister Babul Supriyo who had been gheraoed by the Leftist students unions.