Bengal Governor on improved ties with Mamata govt: ‘Raj Bhavan should be no-conflict zone’

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Bose, who took charge in November last year at a time when a long-drawn conflict was playing out between the Raj Bhavan and the Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress government, said that as Governor he would follow the path of conciliation and cooperation...

Ties between the Raj Bhavan and the Trinamool Congress government were strained during the tenure of Boses immediate predecessor Jagdeep Dhankar, the current Vice-President of India, because of the latters prolonged and often public criticism of the state governments functioning...

The ties appeared to improve after Bose took charge on November 23 last year, with Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee acknowledging in public the cordial relations as she called the Governor a perfect gentleman...

Asked how he managed to turn the conflict with the state government into cordial ties, Bose said, I was only a mute witness to the evolution that has been taking place in the concept of cooperative federalism in the country..

I would certainly like to follow the path of conciliation and cooperation as far as my limited role as Governor of West Bengal, he said.. Asked about the Chief Minister, he said: Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is my respected constitutional colleague..

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