New Delhi: West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar on Tuesday (June 1) stirred an argument by saying ‘ego prevailed over public service’ on Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee skipping Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s assembly to evaluation post-cyclone damages on May 28.
Terming the Governor’s remark ‘unlucky’, the ruling get together within the state asserted that the chief minister is concerned in public service 24/7 and all her actions are prompted by her concern for the pursuits of the state.
Dhankhar stated the Chief Minister had referred to as him up 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. “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 phone indicated boycott by her & officials of PM Review Meet #CycloneYaas if LOP @SuvenduWB attends it. Ego prevailed over Public service,” he stated in one other Twitter publish.
Besides Adhikari, Dhankhar and BJP MP Debasree Chaudhuri was current within the assembly.
Mamata stated she had skipped the assembly as a result of ‘a BJP MLA has no locus to be current in a PM-CM assembly’. Adhikari has defeated Mamata in Nandigram seat within the current meeting elections.
In a letter to PM Narendra Modi on May 31, Mamata had written, “I wanted to have a quiet word with you, a meeting between the PM and the CM as usual. You, however, revised the structure of the meeting to include a local MLA from your party and I am of the view that he had no locus to be present in a PM-CM meeting.” Mamata had additionally talked about within the letter that she had no objection to the presence of the governor and different Union ministers within the assembly.
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After the Kalaikunda episode, a contemporary Centre-state tussle was witnessed over the companies of the then Chief Secretary Alapan Bandopadhyay, who had accompanied the chief minister to the assembly. On May 28, the Union authorities despatched a letter to Bandopadhyay recalling him for central deputation. However, the transfer was strongly protested by Bengal Chief Minister, saying it contradicts the Centre’s approval for extension of Bandopadhyay’s companies because the CS by three months due to the cyclone and COVID scenario within the state.
Mamata despatched a letter to Prime Minister Modi over the problem on Monday and appointed Bandopadhyay as her chief adviser for 3 years, after permitting him to retire from his publish of Bengal Chief Secretary.
