West Bengal Governor C V Ananda Bose.
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West Bengal Governor C V Ananda Bose who is also the chancellor of state’s universities has shared no further details about his communication made around midnight on Saturday with the state government, and the Centre.
The governor said, “What is confidential should remain confidential.” A letter involves a sender, and a recipient. While he is the sender, the recipient can react about the letter’s content, Bose added.
Governor Bose stated that it’s not the time to discuss what has been communicated to the state, as Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, his “constitutional colleague” is going abroad.
“I will not want any tension to be given to her. Let her not have any baggage with her when she is on a foreign tour. We will discuss once she returns,” he said.
A consistent argument has been in the public domain between the Raj Bhavan, Kolkata, and the state education department.
Consequently, the governor signed two “confidential letters” at midnight, one for Nabanna – the state secretariat, the other for Delhi (the Centre).
On Saturday, state education minister Bratya Basu, made the tangle more stiff by a follow-up tweet, where he warned the people to be cautious of a “new vampire in the town”. Governor Bose on Monday, however, refused to react to comments of his “junior appointee”.
Around 400 educationists, including 23 former vice chancellors, had gathered close to Raj Bhavan last Friday to raise issues of concern involving state’s universities.