West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar has said that he and his wife, Sudesh Dhankar, will visit chief minister Mamata Banerjee’s home on Kali Puja on Sunday.
The Kali Puja at the CM’s residence started in 1978 and is now being performed for over 40 years.
The Governor had written to Mamata Banerjee that he and his wife would like to visit her on Bhtridwitiya – a day celebrated in Bengal as bhai phonta (similar to bhai dooj) involving brothers and sisters honouring and celebrating each other. Banerjee, after completing her five-day trip to north Bengal, is back in Kolkata and has written to the Governor inviting him and his wife to her place on Kali Puja.
The Governor has said that the CM in her letter has said that “for the last 30 years on the occasion of Bhatridwitiya she has been affirmatively preoccupied with communal harmony.” The Governor will discuss the issue of harmony and communal harmony with the chief minister, said an official.
There has been constant clash and war of words between the Bengal Governor and the state government and the ruling party’s leaders since his appointment in the state. Whether it was “rescuing” Union minister Babul Supriyo from students of Jadavpur University, to stating that he was “blacked out” during the Durga Puja Carnival, and ministers and officials not being present at administrative meetings called by him, there has been constant war of words.
