Bengal Governor calls on Amit Shah in Delhi before returning to Kolkata

West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar called on Union Home Minister Amit Shah again on Saturday before his way back to Kolkata.

Dhankhar attacked the Trinamool Congress – without naming the state’s ruling party – and said that nothing was being done to stop post poll violence in Bengal. He said some people were being punished for not voting for the ruling party in the recent Assembly elections. Trinamool Congress spokesperson Kunal Ghosh said that the Governor’s words defied his constitutional position, of upholding neutrality, and that he had even spoken publicly about “change” before the elections. “Now that people have voted against the BJP, he is going around door to door in Delhi,” Ghosh said.

Dhankhar was in Delhi for the past two days. He left Kolkata on June 15 evening and is scheduled to be back in Kolkata on Saturday evening. Over the past two days, he called on the President of India and the Union Home Minister Amit Shah. He also met the chairperson of the National Human Rights Commission Arun Mishra, Speaker Om Birla, Union Ministers Prahlad Singh Patel, Prahlad Joshi among others.

Before leaving for Delhi, Dhankhar wrote a letter to Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on her “continued silence” and “inaction” over what he called were “post poll violence”, the “worst since Independence”. The state reacted strongly to the letter by the Governor, saying that its contents were “not consistent with real facts”.