{"id":329389,"date":"2020-12-11T09:03:34","date_gmt":"2020-12-11T09:03:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=329389"},"modified":"2020-12-11T09:03:34","modified_gmt":"2020-12-11T09:03:34","slug":"west-bengal-governor-calls-attack-on-bjp-convoy-most-unfortunate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/west-bengal-governor-calls-attack-on-bjp-convoy-most-unfortunate\/","title":{"rendered":"West Bengal Governor calls attack on BJP convoy \u2018most unfortunate\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-326637 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/jagdeep-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"471\" height=\"499\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/09\/jagdeep-1.jpg 471w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/09\/jagdeep-1-283x300.jpg 283w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/09\/jagdeep-1-396x420.jpg 396w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 471px) 100vw, 471px\" \/>West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar on Friday came down heavily upon Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee over the deteriorating law and order situation in the state.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Dhankhar said that the\u00a0attack on BJP president JP Nadda and Kailash Vijayvargiya&#8217;s convoys\u00a0yesterday was \u201cmost unfortunate\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cThe events that happened yesterday are most unfortunate. They are a slur on our democratic fabric,\u201d the Governor added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cThe law and order situation in the state has been continuously worsening for long. The Chief Minister has to follow the Constitution. She cannot depart for its paths,\u201d Dhankar said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Governor today morning submitted a report on law and order in the state, sought by Home Minister Amit Shah.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cI have sent a report to the Central Government about the extremely disturbing developments that do not augur well for democratic values,\u201d Dhankar said in a press conference.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Earlier today, The Ministry of Home Affairs on Friday summoned Director General of Police (DGP) West Bengal and the Chief Secretary over the law and order situation in the state.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">On Thursday, stones were hurled at the convoy of JP Nadda and party leader\u00a0Kailash Vijayvargiya when they were heading towards Diamond Harbour area in West Bengal\u2019s South 24 Parganas district.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Besides Nadda, a number of cars, including that of Kailash Vijayvargiya and Dilip Ghosh, were damaged in the attack.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar on Friday came down heavily upon Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee over the deteriorating law and order situation in the state. Dhankhar said that the\u00a0attack on BJP president JP Nadda and Kailash Vijayvargiya&#8217;s convoys\u00a0yesterday was \u201cmost unfortunate\u201d. \u201cThe events that happened yesterday are most unfortunate. They are a slur on our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":326637,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2089,1801,2014,2917],"tags":[13458,411],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329389"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=329389"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":329391,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329389\/revisions\/329391"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/326637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}