West Bengal Governor Anand Bose has claimed that he had “reliable information” about “snooping” at the governor’s house in Kolkata. This comes amid a deteriorating relationship between the Trinamool Congress (TMC)-led West Bengal government and the state’s governor.
CV Ananda Bose said there was ‘reliable information’ about ‘snooping’ in Raj Bhavan.
Bose said the matter had been brought to the attention of the authorities concerned.
“It is a fact. I had reliable information about snooping in Raj Bhavan. This matter has been reported to the authorities concerned. I will wait and see,” Bose told PTI.
However, Bose made sure that no one was blamed.
West Bengal Governor CV Ananda Bose, who is also the Vice Chancellor of the Visva Bharati, decided to rename the north gate of Raj Bhavan as ‘Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore Gate’. This decision was made after a controversy arose last month following the installation of plaques announcing Santiniketan’s inclusion as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
The plaques bore the names of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the ex-officio chancellor, and vice-chancellor Bidyut Chakraborty, but not that of Rabindranath Tagore who had founded the university in 1921, leading to demands to remove them from several quarters.
On November 16, Bose alleged that there was a culture of violence in Bengali politics. Reacting to the murder of a TMC worker, he had said, “The law will take its course. We will definitely take strong action against it and Raj Bhavan will also do its duty. Strict action must be taken against violence. legal steps but also social measures. Violence influences the politics of Bengal. This culture of violence must stop.”
Before this, West Bengal Speaker Biman Banerjee had pointed out delay in the passage of bills by the Governor.
“Since 2011, a total of 22 bills are awaiting approval at Raj Bhavan. Three bills have remained unresolved from 2011 to 2016, four from 2016 to 2021, and 15 from 2021 to present. Of these, six bills are currently under CV Anand. Bose’s review,” he said on November 7.
Bose later said that there was no bill pending before him except those that needed clarification from the state government or were pending in the courts.
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Updated: Nov 21, 2023 4:53 PM IST
