Peeved at “some people in Bengal cricket” harassing his family, particularly his brother Snehashish, Sourav Ganguly yesterday threatened to stop playing for the state.

However, denying any fall-out with former ICC chief Jagmohan Dalmiya, who is fighting for the Cricket Association of Bengal top post in the AGM on July 29, Ganguly said, “I’ve nothing against Dalmiya.”

“I don’t have any problem with him (Dalmiya) coming to power. My only concern is the problem to my family because of some CAB members. I can’t tolerate this anymore. If they continue to talk bad things about my family, I’ll certainly pull out from Bengal,” Ganguly told reporters at his Behala residence yesterday.

However, the left-hander said, this season he is “available for Bengal” who will fight it out in the Plate Division of Ranji Trophy.

However, a Bengali daily yesterday quoted Ganguly as saying that he would stop playing for Bengal if Dalmiya comes back to power.

“During Dalmiya’s time, I was dropped from the side and lost the captaincy and if he again comes back to power, I’ll face more difficulties...So it’ll be better to leave Bengal in such a situation,” Ganguly told the Bengali daily.

Fingers pointed at brother

Ganguly’s anger is apparently directed at some people in the CAB ranks who have alleged that Snehashish took advantage of his assistant secretary post and was running the show by interfering in Bengal team and captain selection last season.

Another reason for Ganguly’s outburst few days before the election may be after the ruling party chose not to give Snehashish a ticket to fight for the post of joint-secretary.