Guv weighs legal action on MPs’ ‘arms’ remark

West Bengal Governor CV Ananda Bose on Sunday said he sought legal opinion over TMC MP Kalyan Banerjee’s allegation of Raj Bhavan allowing stacking of arms and ammunition, prompting the lawmaker to say he is ready for a battle in court and cannot be intimidated.

- HT Correspondent

On Saturday, hours after Bose said that the SIR of electoral rolls was essential to “clean up the election process”, he drew a counterattack from Banerjee, who accused him of “sheltering BJP criminals” inside Raj Bhavan and “arming them with bombs and guns”.

Bose said: “The allegations made by the MP are highly inflammatory, explosive and extremely irresponsible...From 5am today (Sunday), civil society representatives and the media have been visiting Raj Bhavan to see whether there is any stock of arms and ammunition here, as falsely claimed by the MP.”