NEW DELHI: Reacting to the Trinamool
Congress
(
TMC
) decision to abstain from voting in Vice-Presidential polls, Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury on Thursday accused West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee of having a pact with BJP and is trying to avoid any kind of enmity with the party.
Chowdhury alleged, “West Bengal governor
Jagdeep Dhankhar
is a vice presidential candidate, he often used to have a spat with the chief minister. A few days ago, governor called Mamata Banerjee in Darjeeling and they had a meeting along with Assam chief minister
Himanta Biswa Sarma
at the Darjeeling governor’s House. The next day he was announced as vice presidential candidate, which means there was a Darjeeling pact among them. ”