A heated argument has been developing between the Chief Minister and the Governor of West Bengal, amidst the COVID-19 crisis in the state and the country.
Mamata writes to the Governor on Thursday
On Thursday, Mamata Banerjee wrote a letter to the Governor of the state, Jagdeep Dhankar, over an SMS which was sent to her in an unprecedented tone.
The letter read:
“Your holding of press conferences against the state government itself of which you are governor. Your repeated and consistent interference in the constitutional dharma and even basic norms of decency between constitutional functionaries.”
The Governor responds
To Mamata’s letter, the Governor has responded with a longer statement:
“I can figure out that your entire strategy is crafted to deliberately divert people’s attention from your abject failure in combating and containing coronavirus in West Bengal. Your appeasement of the minority community was so explicit and awkward that as regards a question about the Nizamuddin Markaz incident by a journalist, your reaction was “Do not ask communal questions.” This is most unfortunate and cannot be appreciated. You can appreciate that a perpetrator can never pose as a victim.”
The Governor’s accusation was that, despite the State struggling to fight the COVID-19 outbreak, the government was focusing on issues that were not related to the Coronavirus.
Mamata Banerjee must definitely fasten the initiatives, as even the Teams sent by the center to look into the COVID-19 crisis in the state have responded negatively and questioned the Chief Secreatery of the state regarding the dismal conditions of the hospitals in the state.
Source: Free Press Journal
