Amid growing differences between Nabanna (State secretariat) and Raj Bhavan, Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar has asked Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee to meet him at the Governor's House and share information with him on a number of issues to avoid constitutional crisis.
The Governor in his February 15 letter written to the Chief Minister refered to his earlier queries on a number of issues that had not been replied.
"Hon'ble CM Mamata Banerjee has been urged to make it convenient for an interaction at Raj Bhavan anytime during the week ahead as lack of response to issues flagged has potential to lead to constitutional stalemate which we both are ordained by our oath to avert," the Governor wrote in a twitter.
With Raj Bhavan and Nabanna at loggerheads ever since the Governor joined office in 2019 the two leaders have fought several letter wars and often attacked each other in public.
So much so that the Chief Minister recently compared her to a horse and even blocked him on the Twitter.
"Impressed upon Hon'ble CM Mamata Banerjee that 'Dialogue, discussion and deliberation, particularly amongst constitutional functionaries, like the Chief Minister and the Governor, are quintessential to democracy and inseparable part of constitutional governance'," he said in a series of tweets on Thursday even as he reminded him of his constitutional duties according to Article 167. Alleging that the Chief Minister had been ignoring his letters, the Governor wrote, "here has been no response, now for long, to issues legitimately flagged."
The Trinamool Congress immediately responded wondering whether the Governor was a zamindar.
"Is he a zamindar that he will every now and then send sentries or messengers... And even if he writes letters now let the Chief Minister respond ... Why would he tweet official things," sais Trinamool Congress spokesperson Kunal Ghosh.
The Governor had on several occasions summoned top bureaucrats but .uch to the anger of him the officers often refused to respond.