Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar will shift to Darjeeling Raj Bhavan on November 1, and he will stay there for a month, a communique from the Governor’s House in Kolkata said on Tuesday. Dhankhar’s Darjeeling trip will end on November 30 during which he will take part in a number of undisclosed programmes, sources.
But before he moves to Darjeeling the Governor will meet Home Minister Amit Shah in Delhi on Wednesday where he is likely to appraise him about the law and order situation in Bengal, sources said. A Raj Bhavan communique said on Wednesday, “West Bengal Governor Shri Jagdeep Dhankhar would be on an official visit to Delhi from Oct 28-30. Governor Dhankhar leaves for Delhi on the evening of Oct 28 and returns to Kolkata on Oct 30.
His engagements include calling on the Union Home Minister Shri Amit Shah on Oct 29.” Besides, it also said that the Governor will shift to Darjeeling on November 1 and stay there till November 30. “Mr Dhnakhar will be staying at the Raj Bhavan in Darjeeling,” the statement said.
The Governor’s visit to Darjeeling assumes importance against the backdrop of undivided Gorkha Janmukti Morcha president Bimal Gurung quitting the BJP fold and joining hands with Trinamool Congress dealing a body blow to BJP’s aspirations in large parts of Darjeeling and Terrai region.
An “absconder” charged with sedition etc, Gurung suddenly resurfaced in Kolkata last week after three years and announced his re-alliance with TMC putting BJP on the back foot. Its clout with the Gorkha population explained much of the saffron party’s stupendous performance in last year parliamentary elections in parts of North Bengal.
The Governor who is expected to brief the Home Minister about the law and order situation in Bengal during his visit to Delhi ahead of his trip to Darjeeling is also likely to be briefed about his ‘responsibilities’ during his stay in North Bengal, experts say.
“Since we function in a democracy anyone is free to visit any place in India and the Government is least bothered about such movements. It is true about the Governor too. But the timing of his visit to Darjeeling and long-stay there is significant because of the setback the BJP has suffered organizationally in North Bengal, particularly Darjeeling in the recent times,” said a Bengal Minister adding “he may use Darjeeling Raj Bhavan as a second BJP party office after the Kolkata Raj Bhavan… but that will hardly affect the local politics as people have understood the difference between Mamata Banerjee and BJP.”
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