Mamata Banerjee and Jagdeep Dhankhar at Raj Bhawan final week.
Kolkata:
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and governor Jagdeep Dhankhar as soon as once more discovered themselves in disagreement on Wednesday – this time over his plans to go to Cooch Behar district to satisfy, as he put it in a number of tweets, folks affected by post-poll violence.
As per his tweets, Mr Dhankhar is to go to the Cooch Behar district tomorrow. On Friday, he plans to go to camps in Assam the place alleged victims of violence in Bengal have fled for shelter.
In a letter to the governor at this time, Mamata Banerjee requested him to not break “well-established norms” and go off on unilateral visits throughout the state.
Ms Banerjee just about warned him in opposition to going anyplace with out state clearance.
“I discover from social media that you’re unilaterally continuing to the district of Cooch Behar on 13.5.2021 and sadly I discover that to be violative of the long-standing norms as advanced over a number of a long time,” Ms Banerjee wrote.
“I due to this fact would count on that you’ll kindly comply with the well-established norms of protocol and desist from abrupt selections with regard to discipline visits,” she added.
Inside an hour or so of her letter turning into public, the governor responded together with his personal two-page letter during which he wrote of “elementary ignorance of constitutional provisions”, that he was “appalled” she thought he wanted her authorities’s permission to go anyplace and that he was “not persuaded” by her stance for which “there could be no sane takers”.
The letter doesn’t categorically spell out whether or not the governor will proceed together with his go to to Cooch Behar tomorrow or not.
Mamata Banerjee and governor Dhankhar have confronted off on post-poll violence from the day she was sworn in as Chief Minister of Bengal for the third time. After the ceremony, Mamata Banerjee made temporary feedback about her authorities’s instant precedence which, she mentioned, was Covid administration.
The governor then took the microphone and mentioned post-poll violence needs to be addressed instantly.
Mamata Banerjee took the mic again from him and mentioned the post-poll violence had taken place at a time when the Election Fee was answerable for regulation and order within the state.
In an interplay with the media someday later the identical day, the governor insisted that Mamata Banerjee was in cost when clashes erupted.
On Monday, after swearing-in 43 ministers of the Mamata Banerjee authorities, the governor addressed the media and mentioned he had instructed the federal government he needed to journey to the violence-hit areas however the authorities’s response was “non-responsive”. He then introduced he would due to this fact be making his personal preparations.
On Tuesday, the governor introduced he could be taking a BSF helicopter to Sitalkuchi and different areas in Cooch Behar, touchdown at 11 am.