what’s Cooking? Sourav Ganguly may host Amit Shah at his Kolkata residence today

Former India captain and BCCI president Sourav Ganguly is likely to host Union Home Minister Amit Shah at his Kolkata residence on Friday evening, triggering yet another round of will-not-he speculations.

There is talk of the BJP trying to get the former cricketer on board ahead of last year’s West Bengal elections in political circles, with some reports suggesting he is being offered the chief minister’s post if the party wins, but Ganguly closed politically. far.

The yatra, which is not in Amit Shah’s packed itinerary for Friday, will begin with an event at the Victoria Memorial where Ganguly’s wife Dona Ganguly will perform a dance at the Union Culture Ministry’s ‘Mukti-Matrika’ event. Thereafter, the Home Minister will visit Ganguly’s residence in Behala where he is likely to host the dinner.

Sources said that Shah may also be accompanied by Leader of Opposition Suvendu Adhikari and MP Swapna Dasgupta.

Commenting on a possible meeting between Shah and Ganguly, the chief minister had jokingly said that she would ask the former cricketer to feed her Bengal cuisine. mishti doi to the Union Minister.

Downplaying the discussion of the meeting, BJP vice-president Dilip Ghosh said: “I don’t know whether he (Shah) will go to Sourav’s residence or not. We don’t have a schedule for this. It is part of our organization’s tradition to meet eminent people… Let’s try to get an opinion.”

Ganguly enjoys cordial relations with both the BJP government at the center and the Trinamool Congress government in the state. He had visited the West Bengal Secretariat Nabanna a few days back and held a meeting with Mamata Banerjee.

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