India
oi-Madhuri Adnal
Kolkata, Jun 28: All eyes are on the beginning of the West Bengal assembly session today where Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar is expected to deliver the opening address. With the Governor and the Chief Minister at loggerheads over the last few days, both ruling Trinamool and the BJP MLAs are going to be watching his speech closely.
It should be noted that the clash between Jagdeep Dhankhar and the State is not new.
The faceoff between Dhankhar and Banerjee worsened on Monday with the ruling party releasing two photographs to insinuate a link between the main accused in the fake Covid-19 vaccination racket and Dhankhar. The TMC alleged again that the latter was an accused in the Jain hawala case in the 1990s.
On June 28, chief minister Mamata had alleged at a press conference that Dhankhar was accused in the 1996 Jain hawala case and branded him “corrupt”. accusing the governor of being…