West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar said that he has received close to 3,000 applications from people in the state seeking medical assistance in the three months that he has been Governor of the state.
Dhankhar said that after careful scrutiny, he has found all the applicants to be eligible for assistance under the Central government-run health scheme, Ayushman Bharat Yojana.
Saying this, he asked the state government to stop from bringing politics into an important matter like health and questioned why the state has not implemented the scheme run by the Centre.
Partha Chatterjee, general secretary of the state’s ruling party, Trinamool Congress, reacted sharply to this, saying that a strategy trying to belittle the state government at every step will mean that his words will have no impact in future.
There has been constant war of words between the Bengal Governor, the state government and the ruling party’s leaders since his appointment in the state. Whether it was “rescuing” Union minister Babul Supriyo from Jadavpur University, stating that he was “blacked out” from television during the Durga Puja Carnival, ministers and officials not being present at administrative meetings called by him, Dhankhar and the ruling party in the state have been at loggerheads on several occasions.
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