kolkata governor jagdeep dhankhar has summoned the budget session of the bengal assembly on february 7 at 2 pm in exercise of his powers under article 1741 of the constitution the session will begin with the governors speech and state finance minister amit mitra will place the budget sometime later during the sessionaccordingly chief minister mamata banerjee on monday placed the draft of the governors speech in the state cabinet meeting and got it approved before sending the speech to raj bhavan not only that mitra prodded by the cm called on dhankhar to clarify the finer points of the states economy and its growth path when the governor has been at loggerheads with the government on several issues particularly higher education two days ago state parliamentary affairs minister partha chatterjee met the governor with a request to call the budget session on february 7the raj bhavan visits by senior trinamool congress ministers gain significance in the backdrop of a development in kerala a week ago when governor arif mohammad khan wrote to the kerala cm stating that he wouldnt read the paragraph in his speech that states that the citizenship amendment act is unconstitutionalpolitical observers do not rule out the bengal governor raising questions over certain paragraphs of the governors speech leader of the opposition abdul mannan who has been in parliamentary politics for long said there was no scope for the governor but to read out the speech prepared by the state government the governor may seek clarifications but has to make the speech as constitutional head of the state mannan said however there are at least two instances where the governor held back two bills because the state government couldnt clarify his queriesdhankhar made his constitutional primacy known and seized the opportunity to point out that the budget session couldnt have been summoned unless he prorogued the assembly session on january 31 invoking article 1742 of the constitution