West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar on Monday denied Trinamool Congress (TMC) MP Mahua Moitra’s allegation that his relations and shut kin had been appointed officers of particular responsibility (OSD) on the Raj Bhavan, 4 of them. weren’t from caste or state. And not a part of their “close family”.
Claiming that the allegations made by Moitra on Sunday had been “factually incorrect”, Dhankhar tweeted, “Mahua Moitra’s claim in tweets and in the media that individual employees have six coterminous appointed OSD relatives is actually false. The OSDs are from three states and four are from different castes. None of them are part of close family. Four of them are not from my caste or state. It’s a “distraction” to divert attention from the dangerous law and order situation. Revealing the strategy” @MamataOfficial.
The governor mentioned he would “continue fearlessly and zealously to serve the people of the state and uphold my oath of office under Article 159 of the Constitution”.
After Moitra questioned the governor, the phone numbers and e-mail ids of officers in his title disappeared from the contact web page of the Raj Bhavan’s official web site. Pointing to this, the TMC MP on Monday night tweeted an image of an inventory of officers’ contact particulars on the Raj Bhavan web site, and requested the governor to “cleanse” the 4 names inscribed on it. Moitra requested Dhankhar “how he was appointed OSD”.
The 4 names are OSD Abhyuday Singh Shekhawat, OSD (Coordination) Akhil Choudhary, OSD Dinesh Dhankhar and OSD (Protocol) Prashant Dixit. On Sunday, Moitra additionally nominated OSD (Administration) Ruchi Dubey, OSD (IT) Kaustav S Valikar and newly appointed OSD Kishan Dhankhar. Only Dinesh Dhankhar is the newest title flagged by the MP.
On Sunday, Moitra shared the main points of the OSDs and claimed that each one of them had been someway associated to the governor or belonged to his recognized circle. The MP claimed that Shekhawat is the son of Dhankhar’s brother-in-law, whereas Dubey and Dixit are the spouse and brother of his former aide-de-camp (ADC) Major Gorang Dixit. He mentioned Walikar is the brother-in-law of present ADC Janardhan Rao, whereas Kishan Dhankhar is one other shut relative of the governor.
Shekhawat was not accessible for feedback over the telephone, and didn’t reply to textual content messages from The Indian Express.
Earlier on Monday, the TMC MP countered the Governor’s response to his allegations, saying, “Asking Uncleji to explain here what are the antecedents of the appointments and how everyone reached the Raj Bhavan. do it now. BJP IT cell can’t get you out of this Uncle ji. And I don’t think even the Vice President of India is happening to you.”
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
