Didi humiliating me on every occasion: Guv

Kolkata, November 29

West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar, who is at loggerheads with the TMC government in the state, on Friday hit out at Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for “humiliating” him “on every occasion” and not briefing him regularly.

This will only “belittle” her own stature, Dhankhar told PTI in an interview and urged Banerjee, for whom he professed “enormous respect”, to introspect and find the way forward.

The Governor also slammed Speaker Biman Banerjee for “violating protocol” by inviting him to speak at the Constitution Day special session in the Assembly on November 26 after other dignitaries. “Have you ever seen in any part of India that a Governor of a state (is) being asked to address the Assembly in a queue at number five and precedence being given to former Governor (MK Naryanan), former Lok Sabha Speaker (Meira Kumar) and former Chief Election Commissioner (SY Quraishi)? “This is a gross violation of protocol. Suffering this great indignity, looking at the importance of the day I went… His conduct leaves much to be desired,” Dhankhar said.

Attacking Mamata, he said under the Constitution, the CM is obliged to brief the Governor, but he has not been informed by Banerjee even once. Refuting allegations against him that he is crossing his “constitutional limits” and is “trying to run a parallel government”, the Governor also challenged the TMC government to cite one instance of it. — PTI