The Bengal BJP has strongly refuted the Trinamool Congress claims that former Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar was made NDA presidential nominee as a reward for the “relentless vexation” he created for the Mamata Banerjee Government during his past three-year tenure in Kolkata Raj Bhavan.“A person coming from a farmer’s family Dhankhar ji has been a people’s Governor … before him seldom any Governor visited the people so frequently to listen to their woes … he raised their issues and concerns … he served the people with true intent,” Bengal BJP president Sukanto Majumdar said hoping the TMC would vote for him “if they have genuine regards for the on farmers whose votes they thrive on.”
He said “we hope that Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and her party will vote for Dhankhar ji considering his service to the people of Bengal,” adding however “even if they decide not to vote for him he will win anyway with comfortable margin.”
Earlier senior TMC leaders like MP Saugato Roy and minister Chandrima Bhattacharya said that “Dhankhar has been made the NDA vice-presidential candidate for “relentless vexation that he created for the Bengal Government … this is a reward for the way he maligned Bengal government, the Chief Minister and the way he obstructed the path of progress.”
Eyebrows had been raised over a secret tripartite parley featuring Dhankhar, Banerjee and her Assam counterpart Hemant Biswa Sarma last Thursday with both the Congress and the Left wondering how a “people’s Governor” who had an hour ago attacked the Chief Minister and her Government for pursuing appeasement politics and presiding over mafia-syndicate-cut money raj.“It is quite interesting that the two characters that fought continuously for two years in public were meeting for such a long time … that too in Darjeeling … and not discussing anything political is very difficult to digest,” said a senior CPI(M) central committee member adding “… that Mamata Banerjee was not passed on the information is also not digestible… but the question is why she was informed in advance about Dhankhar’s nomination.”