Governor demands clarification from Mamata Banerjee for sealing Bengal-Jharkhand border
- In Reports
- 01:31 PM, Sep 21, 2024
- Myind Staff
A few days after slamming the Mamata Banerjee-led government remarking that he would socially boycott her, the West Bengal governor CV Ananda Bose demanded an explanation from Mamata Banerjee over the reports which claimed that her government sealed the interstate border with state Jharkhand on Friday.
According to sources at Raj Bhavan, the Governor has asked the Chief Minister under Article 167 of the constitution to confirm whether the report is correct. And if so, the Chief Minister needs to explain the reasons behind doing so.
On Thursday, Banerjee announced that vehicle movement between Bengal and Jharkhand would be halted for three days because rising water levels flooded National Highway 16 at Panshkura. West Bengal shares its border with Jharkhand in three districts: Paschim Medinipur, Purulia, and Paschim Bardhaman.
The long queues of trucks carrying goods were seen at the Jharkhand-West Border on Friday. The Cargo trucks stranded at the border were carrying basic supplies and raw materials.
On Friday, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi about the floods in the state. She claimed that the floods were caused by the release of 5 lakh cusecs of water from dams controlled by the Damodar Valley Corporation (DVC). CM Banerjee declared that over 5 million people in Bengal were badly affected by the "man-made flood" and warned to cut off all ties with the corporation if the negligence persist.
The chief minister of West Bengal claimed that in spite of several alerts, the Centre disregarded the DVC's technical, mechanical, and managerial shortcomings.
In a post on X, she said, “I wrote to PM Narendra Modi highlighting the devastation caused by the release of 5 lakh cusecs of water from DVC-controlled dams--a scale hitherto unwitnessed.” She further said, “This man-made flood, the worst we have witnessed in the lower Damodar since 2009, has severely impacted over 5 million people in Bengal. Despite repeated warnings, the Centre has ignored the technical, mechanical and managerial failures plaguing DVC. If this gross negligence continues, Bengal will be forced to sever ties with DVC!”
In her the CM wrote, “As a result of an unprecedented, unplanned and unilateral release of an enormously huge volume of water at nearly 5 lakh cusec from the combined system of Maithon and Panchet dams owned and maintained by the DVC (Damodar Valley Corporation), all districts of South Bengal have been plunged into devastating floods, causing severe miseries to the common people.
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