A delegation of TMC members, led by parliamentary party leader Sudip Bandyopadhyay, met the minister in Parliament House and alleged that Tripathi had bypassed the state government in seeking to convene a meeting on law and order.
The MPs told Singh the additional chief secretary to the governor had written a letter to the Malda divisional commissioner on January 31 asking him to inform the Inspector General of Police of Murshidabad to be present at a meeting convened by the governor on the law and order situation in the district and border areas and other issues.
"Since law and order and other such issues are exclusively within the domain of the state government, it is expected that a constitutional authority will not bypass its jurisdiction in this manner," Bandyopadhyay told reporters after meeting Singh.
During their meeting with Singh, the MPs accused Tripathi of "overstepping his authority".
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