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Bengal Governor's NDTV interview is "immature, improper, unconstitutional and condemnable": former Lt. Governor of Delhi, Najeeb Jung, to Karan Thapar for The Wire.
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In an interview where he is outspokenly critical of the Governor of Bengal, Ananda Bose, the former Lt. Governor of Delhi has said Mr. Bose’s live interview last night to NDTV about the present crisis in Bengal was “highly improper”, adding it was “immature”, “unconstitutional” and “condemnable”. Najeeb Jung said it was “a failure of judgement” and that Mr. Bose “should never have been on TV”.
Mr. Jung said that after this interview the Chief Minister of Bengal, Mamata Banerjee, would be “entirely within her rights” if she demands the immediate recall of the Bengal Governor.
In a 20-minute interview to Karan Thapar for The Wire, Najeeb Jung, who is also a former Vice Chancellor of Jamia Millia Islamia, was talking about a live interview that the Governor of Bengal gave NDTV at around 8.40 p.m. yesterday (16/8).
In the interview, the Governor often sounded like a critic of the elected government of Bengal and certainly did not sound supportive of it. The Governor claimed that there is growing fear in Bengal, violence everywhere and democracy has become mobocracy. At one point, the Governor said the Bengal of today is not the Bengal of Rabindranath Tagore.
Mr. Jung was asked if all of this sounded as if the Bengal Governor was criticizing Mamata Banerjee and her government and also running down the State of Bengal. Mr. Jung was asked if the Governor sounded as if he was presenting himself as a separate and alternative authority to the state government.
In his interview, the Bengal Governor claimed he had given “instructions” to the state government. Mr. Jung said that the Governor does not have the authority or the power to give instructions. He can advise and warn in private but he does not have the power to give instructions.
I shall stop here. You must see the Najeeb Jung interview and hear his powerful criticism of the Bengal Governor yourself.
As far as I know - and I think I am correct - Mr. Jung is so far the only former Governor (Lt. Governor) to openly, publicly and sharply criticize the Bengal Governor for the interview he gave last night.
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