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KOLKATA: Bengal assembly speaker Biman Banerjee has accused governor CV Ananda Bose of “crossing constitutional limits” after the latter’s outreach to BJP leaders and families of party workers killed in pre-panchayat poll violence in Coochbehar’s Dinhata.
One Trinamool minister voiced apprehensions that Bose was “following in the footsteps of his predecessor Jagdeep Dhankhar“, whose tenure was marked by turbulent ties with the Mamata Banerjee-led government.
In Coochbehar, BJP leaders later met the governor to complain against “Trinamool attacks and police terror” and urged him to ensure central forces at booths during the July 8 polls.
Junior Union home minister and Coochbehar MP Nisith Pramanik, too, called on Bose. “I told the governor how democracy was being trampled on in Bengal,” Pramanik said. The governor sought a report from the administration after the complaints.
Senior Trinamool leaders accused Bose of being “partisan”. “The governor is the constitutional head of the state and, being a constitutional functionary, he should take a neutral position. He visited the home of a slain BJP worker in Canning (South 24-Parganas) but did not bother to reach out to the family of a Trinamool worker who was killed,” minister Shobhandeb Chattopadhyay said.
One Trinamool minister voiced apprehensions that Bose was “following in the footsteps of his predecessor Jagdeep Dhankhar“, whose tenure was marked by turbulent ties with the Mamata Banerjee-led government.
In Coochbehar, BJP leaders later met the governor to complain against “Trinamool attacks and police terror” and urged him to ensure central forces at booths during the July 8 polls.
Junior Union home minister and Coochbehar MP Nisith Pramanik, too, called on Bose. “I told the governor how democracy was being trampled on in Bengal,” Pramanik said. The governor sought a report from the administration after the complaints.
Senior Trinamool leaders accused Bose of being “partisan”. “The governor is the constitutional head of the state and, being a constitutional functionary, he should take a neutral position. He visited the home of a slain BJP worker in Canning (South 24-Parganas) but did not bother to reach out to the family of a Trinamool worker who was killed,” minister Shobhandeb Chattopadhyay said.
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