On Friday the TMC government’s refused to provide the helicopter sought by Dhankhar to travel to Murshidabad for a programme and return to the city
New Delhi: The row between West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar and the Mamata Banerjee government reached the Parliament on Monday when TMC Rajya Sabha MP Sukhendu Sekhar Roy raised the issue of the governor “exceeding his brief” and trying to run a parallel administration in the West Bengal.
On Monday a day after the TMC Parliamentary Party led by MP Sudip Bandopadhyay complained to Union Home Minister Amit Shah about the role played by West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar.
On Sunday Bandopadhyay, who met Shah during the all-party meeting in New Delhi, said “the governor is running a parallel administration in the state. This is against parliamentary democracy. We have told the union home minister Amit Shah to summon the governor and give him proper guidance.
Dhankhar said the allegations against me are “completely baseless” and wondered which department of the government he has been running.
Dhankar said “I myself have been a parliamentary affairs minister. So I think a parliamentarian has every right to speak on the floor of the house. He is free to express his views. I have nothing to comment on it,” he told reporters while addressing a programme at Siliguri.
Dhankhar said neither the state government officials nor the chief secretary report to him countering Bandopadhyay’s statement.
The Governor said “Despite asking the chief secretary to meet me, he didn’t have time in last three months to do so. So it is ridiculous to accuse me of trying to run a parallel government.”
Meanwhile, West Bengal BJP president Dilip Ghosh mocked TMC for raising the issue of a government-governor row in Parliament and wondered whether the TMC MPs have mentioned the “adjectives” that they had used against Dhankhar.
Ghosh said “I want to ask a question to TMC MPs whether they had mentioned the harsh words they had used against the governor to insult and demean him. Charity always begins at home – first, they (TMC) should look to rectifying their misdeeds and then blame others,”.
On Friday the TMC government’s refused to provide the helicopter sought by Dhankhar to travel to Murshidabad for a programme and return to the city.
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