{"id":9974,"date":"2020-07-20T13:28:29","date_gmt":"2020-07-20T07:58:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/34.22.110.190\/english\/?p=9974"},"modified":"2021-01-05T03:07:31","modified_gmt":"2021-01-04T21:37:31","slug":"governor-jagdeep-dhankhar-wants-to-discuss-bengals-worrisome-situation-with-home-minister-amit-shah-says-its-his-duty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/governor-jagdeep-dhankhar-wants-to-discuss-bengals-worrisome-situation-with-home-minister-amit-shah-says-its-his-duty\/","title":{"rendered":"Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar wants to \u201cdiscuss\u201d Bengal\u2019s \u201cworrisome situation\u201d with Home Minister Amit Shah, says it\u2019s his \u201cduty\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar on Monday took to Twitter to write that he would discuss with Union Home Minister Amit Shah the \u201cworrisome situation\u201d of the state. He said that it is party of his duty, under Article 159 to preserve and protect the Constitution and to devote himself to the service and well being of the people.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWill discuss issues @MamataOfficial\u00a0with Home Minister today-part of my DUTY under Article 159,i.e.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>To the best of my ability preserve, protect and defend the Constitution;<\/li>\n<li>Devote myself to the service and well-being of the people.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I PLEDGE TOTAL COMMITMENT FOR WB PEOPLE\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dhankhar also wrote: \u201cWould be discussing with Union Home Minister at noon today West Bengal (sic) worrisome situation. Also state of affairs and affairs of State @MamataOfficial.\u00a0Welfare of people of West Bengal is ever uppermost in my mind. All my actions are inspired to mitigate woes of WB people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Governor has been raising various issues of the state in his Twitter account and in interviews with the media. Last week, <a href=\"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/are-we-the-governors-servants-mamata-banerjee-reacts-to-jagdeep-dhankhars-tweets-says-he-is-doing-more-than-a-bjp-mouthpiece-would-have\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\">Mamata Banerjee had attacked Dhankhar stating that he was not only overstepping his limits, but also doing \u201cmore than what a BJP mouthpiece\u201d would have<\/span><\/a>. \u201cHe is acting more than a politician now,\u201d she said, adding that it was doing \u201ceven more than what Amit Shah\u201d would have done in the situation.<\/p>\n<p>Among other things, Banerjee had mentioned in her press conference that Dhankhar had referred to the death of BJP MLA Debendranath Ray as a \u201cpolitical murder\u201d while the state government had quoted the post mortem report stating that the injury was \u201cantemortal\u201d in nature, which means it was death by hanging, and a detailed report is still awaited.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dhankhar has been mentioning several issues in the state in his tweets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":279,"featured_media":9333,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,6],"tags":[98,49],"tmauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9974","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-bengal","8":"category-politics","9":"tag-governor-jagdeep-dhankhar","10":"tag-mamata-banerjee"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/279"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9974\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9974"},{"taxonomy":"tmauthors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tmauthors?post=9974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}