Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar on Tuesday mounted fresh attack on the Trinamool Congress Government, wondering why no audit had been conducted into the financial transactions of the Gorkhaland Territorial Authority and saying an audit would be ordered soon to ascertain the amount of “fraud perpetrated in handling of the funds.”
The Governor said that the GTA was formed which “high hopes” and“hundreds of crores were sanctioned for the development of the area” but despite repeated reminders “no audit was conducted” for these many years the Governor said alleging it was clear that large amount of money had been “siphoned off from the GTA fund.”
No one involved committing fraud with public money would be spared ---howsoever powerful one was and which ever political party one went to for asylum, the Governor warned.
“I have been hearing since long time that an audit would be conductedinto the GTA funds but nothing happened,” he was quoted as saying.“But next time I will come to Darjeeling after getting the audit done”. For this he would write to the Centre, The Governor said.
When asked to comment on the Governor’s statements former Bengalminister and senior TMC leader Gautam Deb said that the State had never seen “such a politically biased Governor … It seems that he is running a party office at the Governor’s House … he is making statements and acting on behalf of the people who have appointed him.”