'What’s the big deal?' — Sourav Ganguly riposte after BJP says ex-cricketer is 'only making money'

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Kolkata: Former India cricket skipper Sourav Ganguly is seemingly under attack from the BJP leaders, with questions ranging from the recent foreign tour with West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee to his entrepreneurial ventures...

Ganguly quipped Sunday evening, dismissing criticism for accompanying Mamata in Spain and Dubai in a 12-day official visit to woo investors..

After Ganguly announced at the Bengal Global Business Summit in Madrid that he had plans to open a steel plant in Salboni in West Midnapore district, the opposition BJP leaders are now coming out to criticise him.At a news conference, BJP state chief Sukanta Majumdar questioned what was the need for Ganguly to announce his business plans abroad...

But it was not just the Spain tour that drew the BJPs attention as it questioned the West Bengal government handing out a plot where Ganguly claims that he is running his cricket academy...

BJP state president Sukanta Majumdar, former Rajya Sabha MP Swapan Dasgupta, Leader of the opposition Suvendu Adhikari and West Bengal BJP in-charge Amit Malviya had accompanied Shah at Gangulys residence in Behala...