BCCI president election takes political turn as TMC says BJP trying to humiliate Sourav Ganguly
India TV NewsHighlights TMC Vs BJP begins as West Bengal ruling party claims political vendetta BJP refutes TMC's claim that saffron party ever tried to rope in Ganguly Ganguly was offered IPL chairmanship but he declined the offer BCCI president election on Tuesday took a political turn as West Bengal ruling TMC slammed BJP saying the saffron party is trying to humiliate former skipper Sourav Ganguly as it failed to induct him into the party. Trinamool Congress spokesperson Kunal Ghosh claimed that the BJP had tried to spread a message among people ahead of last year’s Assembly elections that Ganguly, who is immensely popular in the state, would join the party and it is an example of ‘political vendetta’ that Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s son Jay Shah can continue as the Board of Control for Cricket in India Secretary for a second term but Ganguly can’t do so as its president. Referring to Amit Shah, the TMC state general secretary said “a heavyweight BJP leader” went to the former Indian cricket team captain’s house for dinner in May this year. Extending support to Ganguly, TMC Rajya Sabha MP Dr Santanu Sen wondered why the BCCI president would not get a second term.