West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar on Wednesday mentioned that no Indian will be “unconstitutionally” branded as an outsider in any a part of the nation.
Dhankhar, whereas addressing a press meet at Kolaghat throughout his go to to Purba Medinipur district, additionally mentioned he’ll do “everything possible” to make sure free and truthful state meeting elections more likely to be held in April-May.
“No citizen of this country can be branded as an outsider in any part of India. It is unfortunate that some people in West Bengal are describing those coming from other states as outsiders. This goes against the idea of the Constitution,” he mentioned in response to questions on the TMC’s outsider-insider debate.
The ruling get together in West Bengal has alleged that the BJP is bringing “outsiders” to the state to win the meeting elections.
Dhankhar urged everybody to make sure that there isn’t any violence within the upcoming elections.
“I urge everybody to make sure that there isn’t any bloodshed on this election. Is the governor doing something fallacious by making such a request?
“It is my duty, the duty of all of us to ensure that there is no violence during the elections, which should be free and fair,” he mentioned, in an obvious reference to the TMC’s criticism of Dhankhar “transgressing” his constitutional limits.
He additionally urged public servants to take care of political neutrality and never carry the luggage of “political police”.
Dhankhar mentioned state authorities workers and police personnel “shouldn’t do things that are the job of political workers”, impartially do jobs solely assigned by the state and never political masters, and never carry the luggage of “political police”.
Invoking freedom fighters from the undivided Medinipur district, the governor mentioned, “We have to save democracy. Remember Khudiram Bose and Matangini Hazra. The verdict is for free and fair elections. The public servants must ensure that.”
He mentioned that Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee should give particulars of the acquisition of apparatus price Rs 2,000 crore to struggle COVID-19.
The governor visited Purba Medinipur district headquarters Tamluk and paid floral tributes to a statue of Matangini Hazra. He additionally paid respects to Khudiram Bose and different revolutionaries.
