West Bengal governor Jagdeep Dhankhar had written a ‘confidential letter’ to the DGP of Bengal on 5 September pointing at the ‘deteriorating law and order situation in the state’, rising political violence and human rights violations and targeting of political opponents.
In the letter Dhankhar had accused the police of being partisan and acting at the behest of the ruling party in the state. He had asked the DGP to make amends and uphold the rule of law.
West Bengal Governor , who has been extremely critical of the Mamata Banerjee-led government in the state several times in the past,
has taken to Twitter to express deep anguish on the “two-sentence response” from the DGP “sent unusually” to the secretary to the Governor.
He stated that he was anguished at the ‘don’t care ostrich stance’ of the top head of West Bengal Police on Monday.
The DGP’s response came after Dhankar on Saturday raised concerns over the “alarming decline” in law and order in the state following the arrest of nine terrorists associated with a Pak-sponsored module of the al-Qaeda from several locations in West Bengal’s and Kerala’s early on Saturday by the National Investigation Agency.
Stating that the DGP was well aware of “all these sinister developments”,the governor also warned that “a day of reckoning, and not far enough, awaits all such transgressions” and that he (Dhankhar) as the Constitutional head (of the state) “cannot and will not overlook” such transgressions.
He regretted that his ‘well-meaning alerts’ to senior police officers to ‘maintain political neutrality’ had ‘gone unheeded’ due to the “ill-calculated misconception” that there would be no consequences.
Dhankhar, in his letter, asked the DGP to meet him “latest by September 26” and brief him (Jagdeep Dhankhar) on the “alarming decline in law and order in the state” as well as “the steps he (the state police chief) has in mind” to arrest this decline and restore “police neutrality”.
now what remains to be seen is weather or not DGP honours the Governor’s summons.