Claiming that individuals, who forged their votes as per their selection, are being subjected to assaults in West Bengal, Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar on Thursday mentioned whereas the nation is dealing with the Covid disaster, the state is grappling with the dual challenges of the pandemic and the post-poll violence.

The governor mentioned he was shocked by incidents of assault following the West Bengal meeting elections, and determined to go to varied locations affected by the post-poll violence within the curiosity of the individuals.

“The nation is dealing with the Covid disaster, and West Bengal is dealing with twin challenges of the pandemic and unprecedented post-poll violence solely on the bottom that some individuals determined to vote as per their very own selection,” he mentioned whereas embarking on a go to to varied locations in Cooch Behar district.

He mentioned the Mamata Banerjee authorities should make sure that everybody who took the regulation into their palms have to be dropped at justice.

The opposition BJP has been accusing the Trinamool Congress of indulging in violence in opposition to their supporters, a cost which the ruling social gathering has additionally introduced in opposition to the saffron camp within the state.

“Historical past will choose Mamata Banerjee, the chief minister. Historical past can even choose Jagdeep Dhankhar, the governor, and it’ll choose the forms and the media,” he mentioned.

Claiming that he didn’t get any response from the state authorities regardless of efforts being made to get details about the post-poll violence, Dhankhar mentioned the state authorities should present him with the requisite particulars underneath Article 167 of the Structure.

“I’ll carry out my constitutional duties unhindered, undeterred by any state of affairs in any respect,” he mentioned.

The chief minister and the governor obtained concerned in a disagreement on Wednesday after Mamata Banerjee wrote to him claiming that his deliberate go to to the post-poll violence- affected Cooch Behar district violates norms, whereas Dhankhar hit again saying he was discharging duties mandated by the Structure.

“I discover from social media that you’re unilaterally continuing to Cooch Behar district on Could 13, and sadly, I discover that to be violative of the long-standing norms as developed over a number of a long time.

“I, subsequently, would anticipate you’ll kindly observe the well-established norms of protocol, and desist from abrupt choices almost about area visits,” Banerjee mentioned in a letter to the governor.

Quickly after receiving the letter, Dhankhar wrote again saying that he has been following the Structure since taking oath because the governor and his go to to Cooch Behar was to share the ache and agony of the individuals affected by post-poll violence.

Chatting with reporters on the Cooch Behar airport after alighting from a BSF helicopter by which he travelled from Kolkata, the governor claimed that the chief minister, who took oath on Could 5, has full energy to regulate the state of affairs.

He claimed that those that didn’t give political help to the ruling social gathering have been subjected to assaults and atrocities, and ladies and youngsters of their households have been additionally not spared.

Claiming that the post-poll state of affairs within the state took a grim flip owing to the “unlucky behaviour of the chief minister”, the governor alleged, “In the course of the elections, she had publicly mentioned the central armed police pressure is not going to be there all the time and she is going to see after that.

“This sort of problem and behavior is just not acceptable underneath the structure,” the governor mentioned.

He urged the chief minister to make constructive choices and mentioned this isn’t the time for confrontation between the state and the Centre.

Whereas Banerjee had termed the incident of firing by the CAPF in Sitalkuchi during which 4 individuals have been killed as “genocide”, she “didn’t say a phrase about different violent occasions” in numerous elements of the state, Dhankhar alleged.

5 individuals have been killed, 4 of them in firing by central armed police pressure personnel and a first-time voter in firing by goons, at Sitalkuchi on April 10 throughout the fourth part of the meeting ballot in West Bengal.

Submit-poll violence has been reported from varied locations within the state, with each the opposition BJP and the ruling TMC accusing one another of indulging in assaults on their employees.

Banerjee had on Could 6 mentioned 16 individuals have been killed within the current clashes between the 2 events.

Accusing the chief minister of being “partisan”, he mentioned that “she acts with a political aim in thoughts”.

Dhankhar is scheduled to go to Sitalkuchi, Mathabhanga, Sitai and Dinhata in Cooch Behar district throughout the day.

The governor mentioned he’ll on Friday go to camps in Assam the place BJP employees, who reportedly fled from West Bengal owing to the post-poll violence, have been staying.