Opinion | Why Mamata Banerjee Behaved Badly With The President Of India

With a policy of non-cooperation set by the CM herself, it is not surprising that Droupadi Murmu was insulted in West Bengal and the event she graced was hindered

Mamata Banerjee’s administration has released a slew of letters from bureaucrats to show that it had communicated its reservations to the office of the President of India about the preparedness of the venue a few days before March 7.

This was the expected official response to the very visible anguish of President Droupadi Murmu about her visit to Darjeeling to grace the International Santhal Conference being sidelined by the Chief Minister, ignoring convention and protocol.

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Less official and shockingly less polite was the Chief Minister’s shrill verbal rebuttal of the President’s very heartfelt dismay. In a tone screaming contempt, disdain and sarcasm, Banerjee taunted the famously soft-spoken President for supposedly not speaking out on a series of issues and basically accused her of exaggerating the extent of the breach of protocol as if she was sparring with some political opponent, not the person who holds the highest office in the country.

An honest mea culpa from Banerjee – citing presumably good reasons for skipping attendance as protocol demands if not innate good manners – would have gone a long way in........

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