Mamata Banerjee's appeasement policy killed Bengal's peace: Outgoing governor KN Tripathi

KOLKATA: Outgoing Bengal governor Keshari Nath Tripathi has blamed the Mamata Banerjee government's "appeasement policy" for rising violence and deterioration of communal harmony in the state. Tripathi also mentioned that he had informed this to the Centre "time to time".
"Violence has to be condemned, no matter who is responsible for it. I find that the situation has worsened while I am leaving Raj Bhavan. Today, I find incidents of violence have grown manifold than when I joined office in 2014," Tripathi said on Saturday.
"I have sent dispatches to the Centre from time to time because I am duty-bound to send reports on the ground situation," he added. Tripathi urged people, more than political parties, to come forward and restore peace in trouble-torn areas of the state such as the Bhatpara-Kankinara belt in Barrackpore.
The governor's remarks drew criticism from TMC ministers, who had locked horns with Tripathi during the Basirhat riots and later, when he called a meeting of four major parties at Raj Bhavan soon after meeting PM Modi and home minister Amit Shah in Delhi on June 10. "We had said earlier that the governor is using Raj Bhavan as the BJP party office. We stand vindicated by what he said today," Bengal minister Partha Chatterjee said.
Tripathi had no personal complaints against CM Mamata Banerjee. "We were not hostile to each other. We had been exchanging our thoughts. Political differences are natural while functioning, but it does not affect the working of a governor. A governor is supposed to be non-political, which is why the governor may not always agree with the CM and vice versa," he said.
However, working with the TMC government in Bengal and the BJP-led Centre has been a challenging task for Tripathi. "It was not easy. Ideally, the state government and the Centre should act in coordination… Unfortunately, sometimes both the governments do not see eye to eye for political reasons," Tripathi said.
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1. ^{^} Keshari Nath Tripathi (timesofindia.indiatimes.com)
2. ^{^} Mamata Banerjee (timesofindia.indiatimes.com)
3. ^{^} appeasement (timesofindia.indiatimes.com)
4. ^{^} communal harmony (timesofindia.indiatimes.com)
5. ^{^} TMC (timesofindia.indiatimes.com)
6. ^{^} Amit Shah (timesofindia.indiatimes.com)

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