West Bengal Governor, Leader of Opposition missing from list of VIPs eligible for lights atop cars
The Hindu
Other notable omissions include the Chief Justice of Calcutta High Court, Speaker of the State, and the Advocate-General.
West Bengal has issued a fresh list of VIPs and officials who are eligible to have beacon lights atop their cars, the idea being to check misuse of the entitlement by those not eligible as well as impostors. But the list, surprisingly, does not include the Governor and the Leader of the Opposition in the State Assembly. The last time such a list was issued, in 2014, the Governor was mentioned right on top and the Leader of Opposition was also specifically mentioned. “The omission of the Governor and the Leader of Opposition doesn’t seem to be an oversight,” an official in the Transport Department, which issued the order on Friday evening, told The Hindu.
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