Kolkata: West Bengal Governor Dr. C.V. Ananda Bose got here beneath hearth from state BJP chief of opposition Suvendu Adhikari but once more as he administered a former director common of police (DGP) oath of workplace Monday because the state’s chief info commissioner (CIC).
Moments after Bose swore in retired IPS officer Virendra— mentioned to be handpicked by West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee— on the Raj Bhavan in Kolkata, Adhikari took to Twitter to name the governor’s nod for the appointment “unlucky”.
“As a member of the committee, making suggestions for the appointment to the publish of State Chief Data Commissioner, I raised an objection as info relating to filling of the vacant publish wasn’t properly circulated. But the Hon’ble Governor goes forward with the appointment,” Adhikari wrote.
“The chosen individual was the previous DG of WB Police, who was faraway from his place by the Election Fee forward of the 2021 Meeting Elections & was barred from holding any election associated publish as he was inclined in the direction of the (Trinamool Congress),” he additional claimed.
As a Member of the Committee, making suggestions for the appointment to the publish of State Chief Data Commissioner, I raised objection as info relating to filling of the vacant publish wasn’t properly circulated.
But Hon’ble Governor goes forward with the appointment. pic.twitter.com/x56Rbau4Te— Suvendu Adhikari • শুভেন্দু অধিকারী (@SuvenduWB) April 10, 2023
The BJP MLA didn’t cease there. Whereas talking to the media in Purba Medinipur the place he addressed a public rally, Adhikari mentioned: “Mamata Banerjee and the Governor ought to maintain a chintan-shivir (dialogue) and resolve what is correct and what’s fallacious.”
Adhikari had additionally raised an objection in February when Virendra was appointed to the state CIC place.
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Barbs from Adhikari, different BJP leaders play cool
The state CIC appointment isn’t the one concern over which Adhikari has lashed out at C.V. Ananda Bose, who has been serving because the Governor of West Bengal since final November.
Final week, Adhikari instructed mediapersons in Kolkata that Bose was but to play an “lively function” within the state’s affairs, not like his predecessors.
“West Bengal has had a number of famend governors, from Gopal Krishna Gandhi to Jagdeep Dhankhar. We’ve got seen how they’ve performed an lively function. Sadly, we’re but to witness any such function of the current governor,” Adhikari had mentioned.
His feedback got here quickly after Bose had visited Hooghly district’s Rishra, the place communal violence had damaged out on Ram Navami.
There, Bose had mentioned that the central and state governments would be part of fingers to weed out “mobocracy” within the state, however Adhikari had mentioned the governor ought to do extra to guard “nationalists”.
To Adhikari’s feedback, the governor had responded with “thanks”.
“I thank Mr. Adhikari for criticising me one may be important that the opposition chief has the fitting to make his calls for. The opposition has the function to oppose. The opposition is equally necessary in democracy,” Bose mentioned final week.
In the meantime, different BJP leaders have evaded the brewing controversy.
BJP state chief Dr. Sukanta Majumdar gave a query on the governor a go whereas addressing mediapersons in Balurghat Monday afternoon.
BJP nationwide vice chairman Dilip Ghosh, in the meantime, praised Bose final week as an in a position administrator, whereas noting {that a} governor ought to act as a constitutional head with out taking sides.
Adhikari had beforehand skipped Bose’s oath-taking ceremony and in addition the hate khori ceremony, the place the governor started studying Bengali language formally.
Chatting with ThePrint, Trinamool Congress state vice chairman Jay Prakash Majumdar mentioned that the BJP had turned Raj Bhavan into their celebration workplace whereas former governor Dhankhar, now Vice President of India, was in workplace.
“Suvendu Adhikari can’t fathom that the state authorities and Raj Bhavan can have a cordial relationship. It is a signal of wholesome governance. He’s annoyed as C.V. Ananda Bose isn’t paying heed to him,” Majumdar mentioned.
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