Cooperate with Central team, Bengal Governor tells CM Mamata Banerjee

A day after West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee expressed her displeasure over the Centre's decision to send teams to review the implementation of lockdown to contain COVID-19 in the state, Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar urged her to cooperate with the Central teams. .

The Governor on Tuesday morning urged Banerjee to “synergetically” (synergistically) cooperate with the Central team top relieve people from their flight.

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“My request to CM MB to synergetically cooperate with the Central Team @PMOIndia to wean away the miseries of people,” stated Dhankhar in a tweet on Tuesday.

Even as he urged everyone to support the Mamata Banerjee government in the fight against the novel coronavirus pandemic, Dhankhar said cooperation and not a confrontation between the Central and state government was the need of the hour.

“My appeal to all: Support government @MamataOfficial to contain and combat corona curse...Cooperation and not a confrontation between Centre and State must,” stated Dhankhar in the same tweet.

Dhankhar’s comment comes a day after the Chief Minister questioned the basis of the Centre’s decision to send Inter-Ministerial Central Teams to West Bengal.

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Banerjee not only described the basis of Centre’s decision as “unclear” in a tweet on Monday but also shot off a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi stating that the Central teams were sent to West Bengal without prior intimation to the state government and hence was “breach of protocol”.