Bengal Govenor Jagdeep Dhankar visited the assembly this morning.“Why are assembly gates shut?” Assembly adjourned does not mean Assembly is closed,” the Bengal Governor said.
“My purpose is to see the historic building, visit the library… the entire secretariat has to be open,” he further said, adding that “my duty is to protect the constitution”.
“I am not being humiliated. Democracy is being humiliated,” he said.
The West Bengal assembly was adjourned for two days on Tuesday in an unprecedented move, with the Speaker saying bills to be tabled were yet to be cleared by Governor.
Speaker Biman Banerjee announced that the assembly would stay adjourned on Wednesday and Thursday and resume on Friday. “We had scheduled some bills to be tabled in the House and sent them for the Governor’s nod before their presentation. The bills had gone for printing too. But they are yet to receive the Governor’s nod, we cannot place them… So the House will remain adjourned for two days,” said the Speaker.
Prasanta Patnaik