The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to examine a plea filed by a woman staff member of the West Bengal Raj Bhawan, who had alleged sexual harassment by Governor CV Ananda Bose, challenging the immunity granted to the Governor under Article 361 of the Constitution.
West Bengal Governor CV Ananda Bose said, "I am getting a series of complaints from the victims of violence. This is not the first time. Last occasion when the victims of post-poll violence came to meet me as governor, they were prevented by the police."
After the Calcutta High Court's judgement restrained West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee from making derogatory statements against Governor CV Ananda Bose, he welcomed the judgement and appealed to refrain from politicising the issue.
All India Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra lashed out at the Union Home Ministry, saying that it was ridiculous following a disciplinary action taken by the ministry against the Kolkata Commissioner and Deputy Commissioner of Police for allegedly maligning the office of West Bengal Governo
The woman staff member of the West Bengal Raj Bhawan, who had alleged sexual harassment by Governor CV Ananda Bose, has approached the Supreme Court challenging the immunity granted to the Governor under Article 361 of the Constitution.
West Bengal Governor CV Ananda Bose on Saturday came down heavily on state Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and said that she cannot bully or terrify him and she has no right to do character assassination through lies.
The standoff between the Governor and the state's ruling party, TMC, was triggered by a Raj Bhavan communication inviting the two newly elected MLAs of Bhagwangola and Baranagar, Reyat Hossain Sarkar and Banerjee, respectively, to take oath at the Governor's House on Wednesday.
The West Bengal Governor and the state government are again at loggerheads over the oath ceremony of the two newly elected Trinamool MLAs. Biman Bandyopadhyay, the Speaker of the West Bengal Assembly, questioned the Governor behind "delaying" the oath.
West Bengal Governor CV Ananda Bose met the injured of the Kanchenjunga Express train accident at North Bengal Medical College and said that all stakeholders should stand together in the hour of crisis.
Congress MP Deepender Singh Hooda on Monday offered his condolences to the families of those who lost their lives in the train accident in West Bengal's Jalpaiguri and said that the railway accidents are the result of the "mismanagement" and "negligence" of the Central government towards