Mamata Banerjee on Thursday expressed shock over the resignation of governor C. V. Ananda Bose and said she would not be surprised if Union Home Minister Amit Shah exerted pressure behind the change in the governor’s post ahead of the Assembly elections.
Reacting to the development, Banerjee said she did not know the exact reason for Bose’s resignation and suggested that political interests may have influenced the move.
“I am shocked and deeply concerned about the sudden resignation of Shri C. V. Ananda Bose, the Governor of West Bengal,” she wrote.
Banerjee added that, given the current circumstances, the Union home minister may have pressured the governor to serve certain political interests ahead of the upcoming state Assembly elections.
C. V. Ananda Bose Quits as West Bengal Governor
Droupadi Murmu on Thursday evening reshuffled gubernatorial posts across nine regions. She appointed former diplomat Taranjit Singh Sandhu as the new Lieutenant Governor of Delhi and moved R. N. Ravi from Tamil Nadu to West Bengal.
Ravi will replace C. V. Ananda Bose after the President accepted Bose’s resignation, according to a communiqué from her office.
The Centre moved the former Tamil Nadu governor to West Bengal just weeks before the state’s Assembly elections, as the current Assembly’s term ends on May 7. During his tenure in Tamil Nadu, Ravi frequently clashed with the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam government. Critics also accused him of delaying bills, skipping the state government’s prepared text during Assembly sessions, and triggering several controversies.
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Droupadi Murmu Reshuffles Governors Across Several States
The government appointed Vinai Kumar Saxena, the Lieutenant Governor of Delhi, as the new Lieutenant Governor of Ladakh. It also moved Ladakh’s current LG Kavinder Gupta to Himachal Pradesh.
Meanwhile, Taranjit Singh Sandhu, a former Indian ambassador to the United States, joined the Bharatiya Janata Party and contested the 2024 Lok Sabha elections from Amritsar as the party’s candidate. The Centre appointed him as Delhi’s Lieutenant Governor a year after the BJP won the Delhi Assembly elections.
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