West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has written to the President and the Prime Minister demanding a change of Governor in the interest of “good governance” in the state.<\/p>\n
The letter comes immediately after the CBI arrested four Trinamool leaders, including two ministers, a former minister and a former Mayor in the Narada scam, yesterday.<\/p>\n
Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar has been on an unusual offensive against the Mamata government after the ruling Trinamool Congress won a landslide in this summer’s assembly polls.<\/p>\n
Banerjee’s letters despatched today alleges that Governor Dhankhar has been raking up an ‘exaggerated version’ of violence in West Bengal since the election.<\/p>\n
It said the whole exercise is to project a ‘highly inflated version’ of the law-and-order situation in West Bengal, overlooking the fact that the incidents happened when the control of administration was” not in our hands.”<\/p>\n
The situation is now under full control and the administration is busy fighting Covid, it said.<\/p>\n
The letter also pointed out that Dhankhar was “crossing all limits” by raising the law-and-order issue during the swearing-in ceremony and tweeting about it in public domain.<\/p>\n
It said the Governor is trying to ‘destabilise the functioning of the government’ at the time when the need of the hour was focussed efforts to control the Covid pandemic.<\/p>\n
Trinamool Congress sources said the party was considering a resolution passed by the legislative assembly demanding the removal of the Governor.<\/p>\n
The Governor has been at daggers drawn with the Trinamool government ever since he took charge.<\/p>\n
“He is trying to build up a narrative of a severe breakdown of law and order with malafide motive of destabilising an elected government,” alleged Trinamool MP Saugata Roy.<\/p>\n
But Raj Bhavan sources rubbished the Trinamool charges.<\/p>\n
One said the Governor was a lawyer by training and was “totally conscious of his powers and responsibilities.”<\/p>\n
“He had raised valid concerns over breakdown of law and order. He had cleared the CBI to prosecute the politicians involved in the Narada scam,” the Raj Bhavan source said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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