Hours after West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar described the death of eight people at Rampurhat as horrific and claimed that the state is in the grip of a culture of "violence and lawlessness", Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee requested him to "refrain from making unwarranted statements".

In a letter to Dhankhar, she said his comments are highly unfortunate and unbecoming of a person holding such a dignified constitutional post.