Jaipur
Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar has expressed his gratitude to West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for her move to abstain from voting in the vice presidential election in August this year.
The Vice President said that while he was the Governor of West Bengal, he did not utter a single word against Mamata’s dignity irrespective of whatever she said, adding that he did everything in open and in writing.
Dhankhar was addressing the felicitation programme in the Rajasthan Assembly on Tuesday.
I told her (Mamata) that I am no more the Governor of your state. Keep your hand on your heart and think if I have anything which is against the Constitution. Have I ever uttered a single word against her dignity, irrespective of whatever she said? Whatever I did was in the open and in writing. Still, through this House, I thank her for her move for the first time, he said.
Notably, during his tenure as the Governor of West Bengal, Dhankhar and Mamata were believed to have clashed on various occasions.
Dhankhar also recalled his interaction with former Chief Minister of Rajasthan Vasundhara Raje on Mamata Banerjee, in which, he joked, had sought help from her in the form of a magic spell, while he was the Governor.
Vasundhara Raje started in the parliamentary area in 1989. I also got this opportunity. Since then my relations with her have been personal. I even sought help from her after becoming the Governor of West Bengal and my Chief Minister is Mamata Banerjee. Please tell me some magic spell, he said.
