Bengal governor forced to give one-line speech to assembly, Telangana didn’t schedule address
Kolkata/Hyderabad: The customary governor’s address on the opening day of the budget session of a state assembly was mired in controversy Monday in West Bengal and Telangana.
The governor of West Bengal, Jagdeep Dhankhar, was unable to deliver his address at the Vidhan Sabha on the first day of the budget session, amid sloganeering, chaos and protests. Dhankhar read out just one sentence from his 25-page speech — which was barely heard in t
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