Trinamool Congress chief and West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee today said that the Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankar loves publicity and always wants to be in the news.
“There are some people who get stressed if their pictures and news don’t come out for a day,” she said, speaking to a Bengali news channel. She referred to Jagdeep Dhankar’s predecessor, Keshari Nath Tripathy and said that though “he too may have been asked by the BJP to make some comments” at least there was a working relationship with him. Banerjee said this when she was asked why the terms between her and the present governor was so strained.
At a programme in the West Bengal Assembly two days ago, cameras showed the governor not greeting the CM who was waiting to receive him at the gate. Later, Banerjee said that even the Prime Minister had never done this to her, and he always greeted her.
Asked how Jagdeep Dhankar had gone to her house on Kali Puja if their terms were so strained, Banerjee said that he had done so in response to a television interview where he was asked if he would meet the CM on bhai phonta, a day celebrated by brothers and sisters. “He had to keep the commitment he had made during a television interview, so he wrote to me and I said I couldn’t meet him that day as I celebrate it as a day of unity between different communities. But everyone is welcome to my house on Kali Puja, including him. That’s how he came to my house that day,” Banerjee said.
“I wish him long life and I can even pray that his wishes come true, including becoming the President of the country, but in West Bengal, we have a culture of courtesy that we all follow,” Banerjee said with biting sarcasm.
