Democracy, freedom under attack in West Bengal: Governor C V Ananda Bose

“The Constitution has the strength to establish democracy over mobocracy. The Constitution envisages people’s sovereignty, not party sovereignty. India is a federation, there cannot be a State within a State. That is imperium,” he said.

Suggesting that change was imminent in Bengal, the Governor said: “The people of Bengal deserve peace. They will get peace, and they should get peace. Recent instances show that Bengal is under attack. People are under attack. Democracy is under attack. Freedom is under attack.”

Bose had started on a good footing with the Mamata government and was seen as making efforts to repair ties that were heavily strained under his predecessor Jagdeep Dhankhar. However, since then, relations between the government and the Raj Bhavan have soured.