In what has added more fuel to the fire burning the bridge between the Trinamool Congress Government and the Raj Bhavan, Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar has asked Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee to brief him about the “worrisome” law and order situation in the State.
His letter to the Chief Minister comes barely days after he returned from Delhi where he met Home Minister Amit Shah and other leaders expressing his concern about what he called the “worrisome situation” in the State.
Asking the Chief Minister to “urgently” meet him Dhankhar on Thursday tweeted, “given the enormity of decline in law and order I have urged Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee to urgently brief me.”
Expressing concern on attacks on the leaders of the opposition parties he wrote “political leaders and opposition MPs and MLAs are being virtually hunted out of public space by partisan police acting as political workers. This cannot be allowed in a democracy.”
He further wrote that “as a Governor of the state I am extremely worried. I requested the honourable Chief Minister to come forward and have a meeting with me. I hope she will give the highest priority to this.”
Senior TMC leaders came out with sharp reactions following Dhankhar’s tweet with Minister Firhad Hakim saying “during this hours of corona crisis the Government has more important works to do…” while senior TMC MLA Tapas Roy said “while North Indian States are battling “Pangopal” (Bengali equivalent of locust) we are battling a Rajyapal.”
State Minister Rajib Banerjee said “instead of batting for the BJP in the garb of an umpire he should directly go to their dressing room and contest elections.”