Days after Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee accused Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar to Jain Hawala scandal the Trinamool Congress on Thursday brought additional charges against him saying his name had also figured in Punjab land scam which made it mandatory for the Centre to remove him from the top constitutional post that he was in at present.
Continuing its all-out offensive against Dhankhar the TMC leadership said that the party would soon prepare a list of charges against him and move the presidential office seeking his removal from Bengal.
“The name of the Governor is now not only limited to Jain Hawala diary in which there is the mention of one Dhankhar … but also there are reports of the same name being involved in the Punjab land scam,” TMC MP Sukhendu Shekhar Roy said asking “why the Governor who has been so vocal about concocted stories is currently silently on these issues.”
The TMC MP said that the party would soon take the issue up with the President of India. “We will approach the President of India with the case and seek his removal … Bengal does not want a tainted Governor,” Roy said adding that the party would also explore other parliamentary options to seek his removal if bringing up the matter to the notice of the President did not yield results.
“If a representation to the President fails then we will take up appropriate procedural measures in Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha to get his removal,” the TMC leader said alleging the Governor had always tried to harass the State Government and refused to cooperate with it saying “he tries to stall all the decisions taken by the Cabinet … he always tries to block the Bills passed by a democratically elected House … He does so because he has no regards for democracy.”
Roy also referred to Dhanklhar’s family photographs featuring one of the security personnel of Debanjan Deb the arrested fake vaccine kingpin asking “what is this man doing in the Governor’s family circles … has this man been the mediator between vaccine scamster and the Raj Bhavan?”
Deb was arrested a few days ago for running a fake vaccine racket through which he had managed to “vaccinate” about 2,000 people at various fake camps. In most of the cases he used antibiotics in the name of corona vaccine.
The BJP promptly hit back saying the same fake vaccine kingpin had been photographed with a number of TMC top bosses including ministers and Kolkata Corporation administrators.