After Facebook Post, Communal Tension In Bengal

Bengal Governor sounding like RSS Sakha Pramukh, time for him to go

Yes, the Governor has used unacceptable language in his telephone call to the Chief Minister. It is very unfortunate that the Raj Bhavan in Bengal has converted into an RSS shakha. It’s almost like all the bedsheets and towels and everything in Raj Bhavan now have BJP logos. The Governor is not sounding like a Governor anymore, who is supposed to protect the Constitution. He is sounding like a shakha pramukh – this is completely unacceptable.

What happened during that phone call is unacceptable. She is a democratically-elected Chief Minister. It’s not as if the BJP, the Congress or the CPI(M) has sent her here. Ten crore people of Bengal have sent her here.

This kind of language - this is not the first time it has happened. And this is also not the last time that it will happen. He is behaving in this manner, but he is a senior citizen, so I want to give him respect.

But in moments like these, it is very difficult. Article 155 of the Constitution clearly states that the President appoints the Governor and Article 156 states that the President can also remove the Governor. It is a nominated post.

I think it is time now, after this kind of statement to the Chief Minister, what I really feel, is that it is worth considering asking this Governor to get on a bike and leave; it is time for him to go.

The Governor, I’m sorry to say, gets his brief on a BJP letterhead delivered to him by all the minions and he reads out those briefs. The kind of development that has happened in Bengal, and the overall work which Mamata Banerjee is doing, have not only been recognised at the state and national level but also at the international level. This kind of thing is unacceptable from the Governor.