1/31/22, 11:23 PM Mamata blocks West Bengal governor on Twitter

Mamata blocks West Bengal governor on

Twitter
Monday, 31 January 2022

Chief Minister of India’s West Bengal State Mamata

Banerjee has blocked the state's top constitutional figure,
Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar, her micro-blogging platform
Twitter's handle.

Describing the reasons behind the decision, Mamata on

Monday claimed she was ‘getting irritated’ by Dhankhar's
repeated ‘unconstitutional’ and ‘unethical’ comments,
according to UNB.

"He (Jagdeep Dhankhar) tweets something every day

abusing me or my officers, saying unconstitutional, unethical things. He instructs not advises. Treats an
elected government like bonded labour. That's why I have blocked him from my Twitter account,"
Mamata told the media in capital Kolkata.

The state's top constitutional figure, appointed by the federal government, and the head of the Bengal
government have been at loggerheads on several occasions over political and governance issues in the
past three years.

Earlier too, the state had witnessed ugly spats between the two, with Mamata accusing the Governor of
"attempting to destabilise the elected government" of her ruling Trinamool Congress party at the behest
of the Bharatiya Janata Party.

In May last year, Mamata single-handedly pulled off a landslide victory in the state election for the third
time in a row, bucking anti-incumbency and staving off a massive challenge from Prime Minister
Narendra Modi's BJP.

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