A day after he made dramatic allegations about a political conspiracy that kept him from attending a function at Calcutta University, Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankar today publicly upbraided the Police Commissioner in Barrackpore. Mr Dhankar, who had gone to attend an event marking Mahatma Gandhi's birth anniversary, was reportedly upset by the sight of uniformed police officers sitting and reading newspapers; he claimed it was "causal and farcical" this should happen, in front of him, on Martyrs' Day.