Kolkata, July 29 (UNI) Five-time Congress MP from West Bengal’s Berhampore constituency Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, who has recently apologized after his “Rashtrapati” remark went on to create a furor, has earned an image of be- ing a maverick politician since his entry into the West Bengal Assembly way back in 1996.
However, such contro- versial comments from Chowdhury the president of the West Bengal unit of Congress, are nothing new. In 2019, while addressing the Motion of Thanks in the Presidential address, he made a controversial statement while drawing a comparison between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and late former Prime Minister, Indira Gandhi as he said, “Kaha Maa Ganga, Kaha Gandi Naali.” In fact, his entry into the Bengal Assembly also marked the beginning of his spat with current West Bengal Chief Minister Ma- mata Banerjee, who was associated with Congress then. In fact, Chowdhury contested the elections on behalf of Congress from the Nabagram assembly constituency in Murshidabad district in 1996 from behind the bars, as was imprisoned in connection with the murder of a CPI-M leader. How- ever, despite that, he won by a margin of 20,000 votes. That marked the beginning of the tiff with Mamata Banerjee, who vehemently opposed the entry of Chowd- hury into the Assembly. She even went to the extent of tying a noose with her shawl and wrapping.
