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The West Bengal Assembly Speaker has complained against Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar to his Lok Sabha counterpart Om Birla, PTI reported on Wednesday. During the virtual All India Speakers’ Conference on Tuesday, Biman Banerjee told Birla about Dhankhar’s “excessive interference”.
“I told the Lok Sabha Speaker about the excessive interference of Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar in parliamentary democracy and the functioning of the Assembly,” said Banerjee. “Despite being passed by the Assembly, several bills are lying with the governor as he has not signed them. This is unprecedented in the history of West Bengal’s parliamentary democracy. Such a thing has never happened before.”
The ruling Trinamool Congress supported the West Bengal Speaker. “We have been saying this for a long time that the present governor is acting as the mouthpiece of a specific political party,” said TMC leader and MLA Tapas Roy. “He is not only interfering in the functioning of the state of affairs but is also maligning the West Bengal government.”
Dhankhar is yet to react to the development. However, the Bharatiya Janata Party claimed that the governor has exposed the truth. “The TMC is angry with the governor as he has exposed the lawless situation in the state,” BJP state chief Dilip Ghosh said….