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‘Avoid surpassing CM’, Mamata Banerjee tells Governor Dhankar; expresses anguish over his letter to DGP

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West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday wrote to state Governor Jagdeep Dhankar, expressing her anger and disillusion over his letter to the Kolkata Director General of Police. In a nine-page letter, the CM told the Governor that he should keep himself within the mandate of the Constitution.

“As per Article 163, you are mandated to act as per the aid and advice of your Chief Minister and her Council of Ministers which is the essence of our democracy. I am thus writing to you to express my deep pain and anguish at the excessive and blatant attempt at (the) usurpation of constitutional mandates and unwarranted excesses on your part,” she wrote in the letter.

“I was extremely upset, anguished and disillusioned on reading your captioned letter and the note addressed to the Director General of Police which was placed before me, as well as to see your Twitter post regarding the same,” she said.

The Governor has locked horns with the Trinamool Congress government since he assumed office in July 2019. Earlier this month, he had written to DGP Virendra concerned over the law and order situation in the state. Following the DGP’s two-line reply, he asked the state police chief for details of the “alarming decline in law and order” and steps required to tone it. He also asked the DGP to meet him.

Mamata Banerjee, who is also the home minister of the state, took a dig at the Dhankhar’s judgments on the current state of affairs in the state. She said that his inquiry into the criminal investigations in connection with a particular accused in an incident and seeking reports regarding it from the DGP not only amounts to interference in the day-to-day administration of the state government but also gives rise to serious suspicions of interference in and influencing the ongoing probe.

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