The first play between Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar and the Mamata Banerjee Government on Wednesday reached the President’s House with the ruling Trinamool Congress writing a letter of protest to President Ramnath Kovind urging him to call back the Governor for his unconstitutional ways.

Accusing the Governor’s office of ‘serious breach of oath Trinamool MP Sukhendu Sekhar Roy wrote on behalf of his party “We submit that the Governor has failed to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution, and repeatedly breached law declared by SC.”

Apart from Roy the letter was signed by TMC MPs like Sudip Bandyopadhyay, Derek O'Brien, Kalyan Banerjee and Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar.

Even as the letter demanded immediate recall of the Governor the BJP immediately retorted saying it was not the Governor but the ruling party which was conducting itself in most unconstitutional manner.

State BJP vice president JP Majumdar said that the “TMC wants the Governor to be removed not because he is acting unconstitutionally but because he is acting constitutionally … a party that thrives on unconstitutional ways has no better way to express its gratitude to the man who is trying his best to bring back order in the State.”

The letter says that Dhankhar “has engineered to destabilize the State Government machinery as a whole,” and faulted him for his “interminable critical tweets and statements directed against the West Bengal Government, the Hon'ble Chief Minister, AITC - with a political bias.”

It said that such acts were “likely to cause law and order problem. Besides, such tendencies and inclinations on the part of the Constitutional head of the State to openly support a political party strikes at the very root of federalism.”