Click to play videoNew Delhi: The standoff between West Bengal Governor Gopal Gandhi and the Left Front government has spilled over to Delhi with the Governor telling Prime Minister Manmohan Singh that he was not interested in an extension of his term which ends in December.
In September last year the West Bengal Governor brokered peace between Mamata Bannerjee and the West Bengal government over the Singur-Nandigram agitation.
The unease between Gopal Gandhi and West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, camouflaged then is now out in the open.
At a meeting with the Prime Minister just days after having criticised the West Bengal government in a letter for uncontrolled violence, sources have revealed that Gandhi has made it clear he wouldn’t want to go back to Raj Bhawan after his term ends.
The Governor's letter has given the Trinamool Congress just the chance to hit out at the Left; meanwhile, for the Left, Gopal is already enemy camp.
Gopal Gandhi had in a letter recently criticised, what he described the tandav of violence in the state between the Left and the Trinamool Congress.
Government sources reveal that the Centre is keen that Gopal goes back to the state as a Governor again, at least till the Assembly polls in 2011.
By doing so, it hopes to convince Mamata that Congress is keen to take on the Left and in Gopal Gandhi, Trinamool sees a powerful critic of the Left.
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