Didi is on Team Dada. Today, Mamata Banerjee, regarded as “Didi” on her domestic turf of Bengal, has stated she appeals to the Prime Minister to workout an intervention in aid of Sourav Ganguly aka “Dada”.
The trouble is this: Sourav Ganguly, 50, has been refused a 2d time period because the boss of the super-effective BCCI or Board of Control for Cricket in India. Mamata Banerjee says “the pleasure of Bengal” being dropped is “a be counted of shame.” Therefore, she says, Sourav Ganguly need to be allowed to contest the election for International Cricket Council, the globe’s pinnacle governing frame for the sport. In order to do that, Ganguly will should be encouraged with the aid of using the BCCI. After the falling out, until Modi intervenes, as requested for with the aid of using Mamata Banerjee, the BCCI is not like to recommend him.
Sports is simply the cover. Dada has turn out to be the ultra-modern proxy conflict among Mamata Banerjee’s Trinamool Congress and the BJP. Behind the scenes likes a juicy blend of cricket, reputation and naked knuckles combat.
The massive notion is that Sourav Ganguly is being punished with the aid of using the BJP due to the fact he spurned its overtures to sign on as its Chief Ministerial candidate for the Bengal election in advance this 12 months. That election became received spectacularly with the aid of using Mamata Banerjee. Both she and her celebration make the factor that Sourav Ganguly became allowed a 3-12 months extension as leader of BCCI with the aid of using the Supreme Court – with that, his time period could stop on October 23. The identical extension became allowed to Jay Shah, BCCI treasurer and son of Home Minister Amit Shah. If Jay Shah can preserve in office, Team Trinamool argues, why now no longer Sourav Ganguly? The BCCI is presently quite a lot run with the aid of using the BJP with pinnacle posts of Secretary & IPL Chief belonging to shut spouse and children of the celebration’s cupboard ministers.
It’s a conventional case of dynasty privilege, or “parivarvaad”, stated Derek O’ Brien, TMC parliamentary celebration chief in Rajya Sabha, talking to me for this column. He stated he echoed a poster he had shared on social media which became snarky approximately Shah and Arun Singh Dhumal, brother of Sports Minister Anurag Thakur.
Derek O’ Brien known as Sourav Ganguly a cricket legend and stated he has been unfairly handled with the aid of using the BJP. Amit Shah, who has been the maximum senior BJP chief attacking the Trinamool, specifically on corruption charges,is now seeing retaliation from the Trinamool’s red-flagging of his son’s role withinside the BCCI.
For this column, I spoke to a cross-segment of BJP and Trinamool leaders who have been unanimous that “matters had soured among Ganguly and the BJP recently”. This is likewise obvious withinside the timeline because the BCCI, only a month ago, had approached the Supreme Court to permit its pinnacle functionaries such as Shah and Ganguly to preserve for a 2d time period with out the required cooling off duration of 3 yearsthat is required. From that to eliminating Sourav Ganguly is a huge soar in a completely brief time.
BJP leaders verify that Amit Shah noticed in Sourav Ganguly an icon in West Bengal to combat towards Mamata Banerjee or simply be a celebrity campaigner for the BJP withinside the election this 12 months. As communicate became developing of his becoming a member of the BJP, Sourav Ganguly suffered a slight coronary heart assault and became hospitalised.
Ashok Bhattacharya, a senior CPI(M) chief who’s a long-time Ganguly friend, had on the time said that the BJP became pressuring Ganguly to sign up for the celebration. The implication became clean – that the strain had made Dada very sick.
On a current journey to Kolkata, Amit Shah had dinner at Sourav Ganguly’s domestic with different BJP leaders. Sources near Sourav Ganguly say that leaders from the BJP in Bengal attempted to get him to sentence violence towards BJP people however he refused to oblige, making it clean that he is now no longer interested. The Amit Shah model of the BJP isn’t used to political stonewalling and Sourav Ganguly’s refusal to get concerned reportedly disappointed a few leaders. “It became Ganguly’s dream to be BCCI president and if the BJP had now no longer supported him, it might in no way have happened. He performed at the side of us until he were given the task however would not decide to something political at all. This disappointed our senior leaders,” stated a BJP chief who has labored in Bengal. Sources say the breaking factor became reached at a nighttime assembly at Amit Shah’s Delhi domestic remaining week while N. Srinivasan, former President of the BCCI, complained approximately “non-performance” with the aid of using Sourav Ganguly and were given a receptive hearing.
A selection became reputedly taken to drop Sourav Ganguly because the BCCI leader. Given cricket’s status withinside the country – and the form of cash it drives – it’s miles fated to be political ground. Take a examine this list. Jay Shah as BCCI Secretary; Rajiv Shukla, Congress Rajya Sabha MP, set to hold his publish as Vice President; Mumbai BJP leader Ashish Shelar turns into Treasurer, changing the Sports Minister’s brother, who will now head the IPL; Assam Cricket Association’s Secretary, Devajit Saikia, who’s extraordinarily near Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, can be the BCCI’s new Joint Secretary.
Suvendu Adhikari, BJP chief, stated if Mamata Banerjee is so worried approximately Sourav Ganguly, she need to make him the emblem ambassador of West Bengal, a position held with the aid of using celebrity Shah Rukh Khan for years. Derek O’ Brien’s response: “We may have emblem ambassadors. What’s the large deal”.