Congress accuses Chhattisgarh Governor of favouring BJP govt

Tandon was previously a BJP leader from Punjab and is known to have close ties with the RSS.

Chhattisgarh Governor Balram Das Tandon has found himself in the middle of a controversy, with the opposition Congress accusing him of favouring the BJP government in the state.

Senior Congress leaders have hit out at Tandon after he allegedly dismissed Congress’s concerns on various issues. The party has also been irked by Tandon’s interview to Dainik Bhaskar newspaper in which he reportedly said, “it was the job of the opposition to oppose”.

Tandon was previously a BJP leader from Punjab and is known to have close ties with the RSS.

[related-post]

Story continues below this ad

State Congress leaders hit out at the Governor at a press conference Thursday, also attended by former Cabinet minister C P Joshi. The leaders said Tandon should refrain from “using his office for political purposes”.

“The dignity of the office of the Governor must be maintained. Earlier, when the Congress met him with a petition regarding discrepancies in the allocations for SC/STs, he made disparaging remarks about the party. Now in an interview, he has disrespected the party by saying that the opposition’s job is to oppose. Is this something a neutral constitutional head of a state should say? If he steps down as Governor, Congress would respond to him in the open field of politics,” Congress leader Satyanarayan Sharma said.

On Friday, president of Congress’s Raipur city unit Vikas Upadhyaya led a protest march to Raj Bhawan against Tandon.

Stay updated with the latest - Click here to follow us on Instagram