West Bengal Governor CV Ananda Bose sends confidential letters to Centre, state secretariat

Amid major face-off between West Bengal Governor and the state government over various issues related to the education sector, Governor CV Ananda Bose has sent two confidential letters-one to Nabanna (the state secretariat) and other to New Delhi on Saturday midnight.

Bose had vowed to "take action at midnight" yesterday, following which the letters were sent last midnight. The Governor told mediapersons on Saturday, "Wait for the stroke of midnight today (Saturday midnight). You will see the action."

"The Hon'ble Governor of West Bengal has signed two confidential letters (sealed) tonight, one to Nabanna and the other to Delhi," a statement released by Raj Bhawan last night as said by Bose. However, the details of the letter are yet to be known.


In a major verbal duel, West Bengal education minister Bratya Basu has compared CV Ananda Bose with a 'vampire', following Bose's comment on "midnight action". Reacting sharply to Bose's comments, the State Education Minister took to X and said, "See till midnight, see the action.” BEWARE! BEWARE! BEWARE! New Vampire in the town! Citizens please watch yourselves. Eagerly waiting for the “Rakkhas Prahar”, according to Indian Mythology!."
This is not the first time that Basu made such comments. Earlier, Basu had referred the Governor as "James Bond."

The state government and Bose are at loggerheads for the last few months over a varied issues, starting from pre and post-poll violence in Panchayat election, appointment of the new interim Vice-Chancellors of the state universities and then Bose deciding to discharge the duties of VCs in various state universities where posts of VCs were vacant, reminding the days of former Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar. Even West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee once compared Bose with Dhankhar and commented that Dhankhar was better and he did not intervene in state issues.

The situation turned tense last week with West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee threatening to block funds on Teacher's Day after the Governor alleged that the names recommended by the state government for the post of the Vice Chancellors of state universities, had names of corrupt people and those who had harassment charges against them. Bose in a video message in Bengali "How can I make such people the Vice Chancellors. Educational institutions should be corruption and violence free. Brothers and sisters, how can I appoint such people who are corrupt and have harassment charges against them VCs? But appointing interim VCs was also necessary in order to make the universities operational,"