State can't be run like a 'fiefdom', will disclose all details tomorrow: Bengal Guv responds to Mamata Banerjee's letter

After Mamata Banerjee's five-page letter to Jagdeep Dhankhar claimed that his direct attack on her, state ministers and government officials is 'unparliamentary', the Bengal Governor on Thursday night sent a multi-page initial response to the CM,

In his reply, the Governor countered that the state can not be run like a 'fiefdom' as the constitution does not permit it. 

"The Constitution does not allow any Constitutional functionary to be 'law unto oneself' and the state can not be run like a 'fiefdom', and it has to be governed with complete adherence to Constitutional prescriptions," Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar wrote in his 'initial' response.

"If I go by your response, I should be in 'sleep mode', totally non-functional, confined to  Raj Bhavan and await the end of Covid-19 pandemic, so that you may spare time for interaction with the Constitutional head," he wrote.

Dhankhar also said that he will disclose all details related to the Rajbhavan-Nabanna stand-off on Friday (Apr 24).

"The people would be wisened about your stance once tomorrow I make full disclosure of details and documentation that will startle all," Guv wrote.

"I never wanted to take recourse to this but in view of your factually untenable stand and your going public this has become a compulsive need," Dhankhar wrote.

"I have for the first time benefit of knowing your views and I am sure this will pave way for synergetic working between us as per constitution in the interest of the state and for welfare of the people," the letter read.

"I need to indicate firmly that there has been total failure at your end all through as regards compliance of constitutional prescriptions qua the constitutional head," Jagdeep Dhankhar wrote in the letter.

Earlier in the evening, Mamata Banerjee in her letter to Jagdeep Dhankhar reminded the governor about his constitutional boundaries.

"You appear to have forgotten that I am an elected Chief Minister of a proud Indian state and you also seem to have forgotten that you are a nominated Governor," Mamata Banerjee wrote in the letter.

"Your tone, tenor and language, which in the mildest words of extreme moderation, deserve to be characterised as unparliamentary," Banerjee wrote. "Your holding of press conferences against the state government itself (of which you are Governor!) and your repeated and consistent interference in the administration of my ministries and departments."