The Governor’s checklist was printed on a plain sheet of paper with no official letterhead. (FILE)
Kolkata:
The Raj Bhawan and the Mamata Banerjee-led authorities in Bengal right this moment crossed swords againi over a tweet by Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar, claiming there have been 223 rape instances and 639 kidnappings within the state within the month of August alone.
“Time to douse fireplace below ft and put legislation and order in place earlier than attending flames elsewhere,” Mr Dhankhar tweeted this afternoon, together with an inventory of district-wise numbers of rapes and kidnappings in Bengal in August.
Rapes-223 and Kidnappings-639 @MamataOfficial in August 2020 as per official stories point out worrisome state of crime in opposition to women- a explanation for concern.
Time to douse fireplace below ft and put legislation and order in place @[email protected] earlier than attending flames elsewhere. pic.twitter.com/302U2kkUTf
— Governor West Bengal Jagdeep Dhankhar (@jdhankhar1) October 6, 2020
The tweet provoked a pointy response from the state authorities’s Residence Division - led by Mamata Banerjee herself, which stated the checklist shared by the Governor was not primarily based on any official knowledge.
“Rajbhavan dissemination of WB “statistics” on rape and kidnapping isn’t primarily based on any official report, knowledge, or data. Allegations are baseless, ill-founded, and misguiding: completely incongruous with genuine information and figures, ” the tweet learn.
Rajbhavan dissemination of WB “statistics” on rape and kidnapping isn’t primarily based on any official report, knowledge, or data. Allegations are baseless, ill- based, and misguiding: completely incongruous with genuine information and figures.
— HOME DEPARTMENT - GOVT. OF WEST BENGAL (@HomeBengal) October 6, 2020
The Governor’s checklist was printed on a plain sheet of paper with no official letterhead or signature on it. Kolkata Police and West Bengal Police had been tagged within the tweet however not Mamata Banerjee.
The Governor’s “put legislation and order in place earlier than attending to flames elsewhere” tweet has come shut on the heels of a Trinamool delegation’s go to to Hathras and Ms Banerjee’s criticism of the BJP and the Uttar Pradesh authorities over the incident.
The Governor didn’t reveal the place he sourced the figures from however he was fast to hit again on the house division, threatening motion in opposition to those that had framed the tweet questioning the figures he had put out.
“These accountable “for such outrageously incorrect assertions to run down a constitutional workplace is not going to be with out penalties,” he warned.
“Shocked @MamataOfficial horrible misrepresentation. Should apologetically withdraw and make amends. Statistics of Rapes-223 and Kidnappings-639 in August 2020 emanate from genuine stories formally despatched to me from every of Divisions. All figures after due diligence, ” Mr Dhankhar stated.
Shocked @MamataOfficial horrible misrepresentation. Should apologetically withdraw and make amends. Statistics of Rapes-223 and Kidnappings-639 in August 2020 emanate from genuine stories formally despatched to me from every of Divisions. All figures after due diligence. https://t.co/I4fN5ynHJe
— Governor West Bengal Jagdeep Dhankhar (@jdhankhar1) October 6, 2020
The Governor additionally slammed the state director normal of police and the state house division for exhibiting “defiance to directive to apprise on nose-diving legislation and order”.
“Each CS (chief secretary) and ACS (extra chief secretary) Residence @MamataOfficial have been suggested to forthwith make amends as such stance is surprising - should forthrightly withdraw enter. How ironical- Each DGP @WBPolice and ACS Residence present defiance to directive to apprise on nostril diving legislation and order and now such untruths,” he tweeted.
Final week, the Governor had summoned the director normal of police and the house secretary to the Raj Bhawan. However neither confirmed up. On Monday, the chief secretary met the Governor but it surely was described as a routine go to.
The ability corridors are abuzz with questions over the official supply of the Governor’s checklist because the West Bengal authorities hasn’t but submitted figures of crime for the yr 2019 to the Nationwide Crime Information Bureau.
Within the Crime in India 2019 report by the nationwide crime information bureau below the Ministry of Residence Affairs on September 30, there was a disclaimer saying, “resulting from non-receipt of knowledge from state of West Bengal and Kolkata metropolis in time for the yr 2019, knowledge furnished for the yr 2018 has been used to reach at nationwide and city-wise figures.”