Meghalaya Governor Tathagata Roy has lashed out the Mamata Banerjee Government for its alleged contemptibility in dealing with Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar. This, while the Trinamool Congress leadership has faulted the Narendra Modi Government for its ‘barbaric ways’.
Speaking to newsmen Roy on Sunday said that he had “never seen such a mean Government” in his life. Referring to the way the State administration conducted itself when Dhankhar was being humiliated by the students of Jadavpur and Calcutta Universities, Roy said “this is absolute vileness which does not go with the great Bengali culture.”
The Governments had come and gone but none had misbehaved with a Governor like this Roy said. “I have never seen such a wicked and dirty behavior from any Government earlier… The way he was humiliated at the Calcutta University convocation programme is really reprehensible … One cannot conceive of a Governor who is also the chancellor of the University being blockaded and humiliated by students in presence of the State police … so that he had to abandon the programme” and retire from the venue,” he said.
Dhankhar had been in loggerheads with the State Government ever since he ignored the State Government’s advisory and personally went to the Jadavpur University to secure the release of Union Minister Babul Supriyo who had been blockaded by the agitating students there.
Subsequently he had repeatedly complained against the State Government for refusing to cooperate with him whenever he tried to visit the districts to take stock of administrative situations there.
On the other hand Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and other senior ministers repeatedly attacked the Governor for crossing the line of political decorum and interfering in the State’s administrative affairs.
The TMC leadership even went to the extent of calling the Governor a spokesperson of the BJP while Banerjee charged the Central Government with “trying to run a parallel administration in the State through the Governor’s office.”
Meanwhile, senior Bengal Minister and TMC general secretary Partho Chatterjee on Sunday said BJP was running a barbaric regime in the centre. Referring to a “cruel remark” by a State BJP leader over the death of a woman who died amidst a sit-in demonstration against the Citizenship Amendment Act at Park Circus, Chatterjee said “this is a barbaric (Central) government. T
hey (BJP) are inhuman. India has never seen such a barbaric and inhuman Government. They are insensitive to all kind of tragedy. I don’t think sit-in demonstrations will move them.”
He was referring to the death of a woman who fell ill amidst the Park Circus dharna against CAA and later succumbed to her ailments. Kolkata too had been protesting for the past more than a week against the CAA through a sit-in at Park Circus maidan a la Saheen Bagh in Delhi.