Raj Bhavan, Bengal govt stay mum on Guv's letters, TMC lashes out at Bose

PTI, KOLKATA, SEPT 10, 2023 : Nearly 20 hours since West Bengal Governor C V Ananada Bose sent two sealed missives to the central and state governments, neither Raj Bhavan nor the state secretariat divulged details of the letters.

Bose sent two sealed letters to the Centre and the state government late Saturday night following an intense war of words between the two sides, amid a row over his appointing officiating vice- chancellors in universities. 

The ruling Trinamool Congress on Sunday lashed out at the governor, accusing him of "deliberately adopting a confrontationist approach on behalf of the BJP". The saffron party hit back and accused the TMC of "humiliating the governor by attacking him for his efforts to clean up the mess in the state's education system". 

State Education Minister Bratya Basu did not react to the sealed letters sent by the Raj Bhavan to the Centre and the state government. However, minutes after Bose's warning of a much bigger action at midnight, Basu had on Saturday reacted to the comment and mocked the governor by calling him the "new vampire in town". 

TMC Rajya Sabha MP Santanu Sen alleged that the governor's latest act of sending confidential letters stems from "his wish to be in the good books of the BJP with an eye on a plum posting in New Delhi as a reward". 

"The governor is destroying the state's higher education sector by violating all rules, statutes and constitutional provisions. Despite the state pointing out the anomalies in his action, he appears nonchalant and has adopted a confrontationist stance because of the support of the BJP," Sen said.