File picture of Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar.
West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar stated the chief minister had referred to as him earlier than the assembly at Kalaikunda in Paschim Medinipur district and indicated that she will not attend it if Leader of Opposition Suvendu Adhikari is current in it.
- PTI Kolkata
- Last Updated:June 01, 2021, 12:37 IST
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West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar on Tuesday stirred contemporary controversy by saying “ego prevailed over public service” on Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee skipping Prime Minister Narendra Modi‘s meeting to review post-cyclone damages on May 28. Dhankhar said the chief minister had called him before the meeting at Kalaikunda in Paschim Medinipur district and indicated that she won’t attend it if Leader of Opposition Suvendu Adhikari is present in it.
“Constrained by false narrative to put record straight: On May 27 at 2316 hrs CM @MamataOfficial messaged ‘may I talk? urgent’,” Dhankhar tweeted. “Thereafter on telephone indicated boycott by her & officers of PM Review Meet #CycloneYaas if LOP @SuvenduWB attends it. Ego prevailed over Public service,” he said in another Twitter post.
Besides Adhikary, Dhankhar and BJP MP Debosree Chaudhuri were present at the meeting. The chief minister said she skipped the meeting because “a BJP MLA has no locus to be present in a PM-CM meeting”. Adhikari has defeated Banerjee in Nandigram seat within the current meeting elections.
In a letter to the prime minister on Monday, Banerjee had written, “I needed to have a quiet phrase with you, a gathering between the PM and the CM as typical. You, nevertheless, revised the construction of the assembly to incorporate a neighborhood MLA out of your celebration and I’m of the view that he had no locus to be current in a PM-CM assembly.” Banerjee had also mentioned in the letter that she had no objection to the presence of the governor and other Union ministers in the meeting.
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