Kolkata: Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee on Monday said he had blocked the governor Jagdeep Dhankhar on Twitter to protest against the “unconstitutional and unethical”, which encourages “BJP Goondas” to kill Trinamool workers.
Banerjee apologized for his actions but said he was forced to do this.
“Its actions prevent the BJP goonda to kill our people,” the CM said, referring to the killing of a leader of the Trinamool near Barrackpore on Saturday, and accused the governor of Surveillance in the administration using the “Pegasus”.
“Pegasus is being run from Raj Bhavan.
We had all-India Pegasus there (Delhi) ….
Telephone tapped everyone here,” said Banerjee.
“We have Pegasus in Delhi, here we have a super-paharadar (super-security guard) in Bengal,” he added, alleging that Dhankhar using Raj Bhavan for “telephone stalking Bengal and Tap”.
Diagribe CM against the governor came hours after senior Trinamool MP Sudipadhyay approach President Ram Nath Kovind on the floor of the house in Delhi with a request to “remove Dhankhar”.
Head of the Congress of Bengal and Behrampore MP Adhir Chowdhury later said he agreed with the Trinamool Congress demand.
Dhankhar responds within hours.
“The mandate in Article 159 of the Constitution to ensure that nothing in the norms and rules of law ‘block’ countries and those in authority, to bear true faith and allegiance to the Constitution of India,” he tweeted.
Banerjee accused the governor of “repeatedly” blocking the function of government, which has been “democratically elected”.
“He has even sent us questions about MAA Canteen, which provides food to those eggs with a subsidized rate.
Have we ever asked her what food she ordered from a five star hotel every day?” He asked.
“We have all the bills, do not force us to express it,” he said, accusing Dhankhar “constantly threaten the government and its officials”.
Monday Double Strike – Attack Banerjee in Kolkata and the action of members of his party MP in Delhi – came a day after Trinamool Minister Jyotipriya Mullick accused the governor of sharing Dais with BJP MP Arjun Singh, “a professional assassin”, on the death anniversary of Gandhiji.
And Trinamool minister’s comments followed a day after local Trinamool leader, Gopal Majumdar murder in Barrackpore on Saturday.
Singh is BJP MP from Barrackpore.
Police on Sunday arrested a BJP leader for the murder.
BJP has blamed “internal strife Trinamool” to death.