Bengal Speaker Complains To Om Birla About Dhankhar's "Excessive Interference"

West Bengal Assembly Speaker Biman Banerjee complained to his Lok Sabha counterpart Om Birla about Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar during the virtual All India Speakers' Conference on Tuesday.

West Bengal Assembly Speaker Biman Banerjee has complained to his Lok Sabha counterpart Om Birla about the "excessive interference" of Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar in matters related to parliamentary democracy and functioning of the House. Mr Banerjee complained to Mr Birla about Mr Dhankhar during the virtual All India Speakers' Conference on Tuesday. "I told the Lok Sabha speaker about the excessive interference of Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar in parliamentary democracy and the functioning of the Assembly. Despite being passed by the Assembly, several bills are lying with the governor as he has not signed them. This is unprecedented in the history of West Bengal's parliamentary democracy. Such a thing has never happened before," Mr Banerjee told PTI. Mr Dhankhar, who shares a strained relationship with the TMC government, is yet to react to the development.