Bengal Chief Minister on Thursday chose to ignore Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar’s visit to Delhi saying “speech is silver and silence is golden.”
Instead of directly attacking the Governor --- a usual tactic that she would adopt for the past couple of years --- Banerjee focused on the “political gimmicks” of the BJP to create a “perspective” for some ulterior motive.
She would not refer to the Governor but say “you can rebuke a child into silence but you cannot make a person with bad eyesight to see reasons.” Pointing at the alarming state of affairs in the BJP-ruled States she said how the saffron party was not bothered about the situations in UP, MP, Gujarat etc where “people are dying like animals and their bodies floating in the rivers.”
Refuting charges of post-poll violence Banerjee said, “as journalists you must have better information about the so-called violence … but have you seen violence anywhere? … some incidents happened during election, but at that time, the Election Commission was in charge …,” reminding how the BJP was “trying to create a perspective… But it is not true… I don’t support violence and I have asked my police to take stern action against those who will try to break law and order in the state.”
In an apparent reference to the Governor’s visit to Delhi she said “whatever you are witnessing now is nothing but their (BJP leaders) gimmick. It is a part of their pre-planned move after facing a defeat in the poll which they cannot accept.”
She said instead of disturbing Bengal “they (BJP) should look at UP, MP band Gujarat where the law and order situation is deteriorating every day.”