West Bengal Governor C. V. Ananda Bose on May 8 said he would not remain silent if there was a constitutional crisis in the State.
“If there is a constitutional or legal crisis, I will not remain silent like Hamlet,” Mr. Bose said at a function at the ancestral residence of Rabindranath Tagore at Jorasanko in north Kolkata.
Though the Governor has made similar comments that he will not be mute witness to law and order deterioration in the State in the past, the remarks during the day come in the wake of spike in political violence in the State. Three BJP supporters were killed between April 27 and May 2 and during the day a Trinamool Congress supporter was shot at Amdanga in North 24 Parganas. Basanti in South 24 Parganas district has also been on the boil over the past 24 hours as clashes between two factions of the Trinamool Congress erupted. Four Trinamool supporters were injured in the violence.
