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Sourav Ganguly was under pressure to join politics, says CPI(M) leader Senior CPI(M) leader Ashok Bhattacharya’s statement that former Indian cricket captain Sourav Ganguly, who suffered a heart attack, was under pressure to join politics created a storm
Bhattacharya’s statement that BCCI president and former Indian cricket captain Sourav Ganguly, who suffered a heart attack and is now hospitalised, was under pressure to join politics created a storm on Sunday. Speculations were rife that the former batting great will join the BJP ahead of the state assembly elections due in April-May this year. But Ganguly himself never made his intentions quite clear about taking the political plunge. He underwent angioplasty after a “mild” heart attack on Saturday. He is under treatment in a private hospital in Kolkata. “Some
people wanted to use Saurav Ganguly politically. That probably exerted pressure on him. He is not a political element. He should be known as Sourav the sporting icon,” Bhattacharya, the BCCI presidents longtime family friend, said. “We should not create pressure on him (for joining politics). I had told Sourav last week he should not join politics and he did not oppose my views,” Bhattacharya who visited Ganguly at the hospital said. Reacting to the former minister’s comments, BJP state president Dilip Ghosh said, “Some people see politics in everything due to their sick mindset. Like millions of his fans, we only wish that Sourav recovers fully.”