Hate mail: Didi blocks Governor

Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday said she has blocked Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar on Twitter, “disturbed” by his regular posts against her government on the microblogging platform.

Banerjee also said that Dhankhar has threatened the chief secretary and the director general of police on several occasions.

Addressing a press meet here, the CM said she has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi several times, seeking the removal of Dhankhar. “However, no action has been taken so far,” Banerjee, who shares an acrimonious relationship with the governor, said. Banerjee’s move, which would mean the governor’s posts will no longer show up on her Twitter feed, appeared to have been prompted by Dhankhar’s latest attack on her government at an event to mark Mahatma Gandhi’s death anniversary.

“I cannot see the hallowed land of Bengal getting blood drenched (in violence) and becoming a laboratory for trampling of human rights. People are saying that the state is turning into a gas chamber of democracy,” he had said in remarks that he posted on his Twitter account as well. —(Agencies)