Kolkata, Dec 13 (PTI) West Bengal Governor C V Ananda Bose was on Saturday evening "denied" entry into the Salt Lake Stadium, hours after chaos and crowd trouble at the venue marred an event featuring football legend Lionel Messi.

Bose described the denial of entry as an affront to the constitutional position of the Governor, and sought a reply from the authorities.

“I never write a report without seeing the place… My report is half ready. I want to see for myself what happens in ground zero,” he told reporters outside the stadium, adding that he would give the authorities “one more chance to open the gate”.

“Is this the way Bengal treats its Governor? The Governor is not a rubber stamp,” Bose said, terming the episode a “ghastly irrelevance of a constitutional authority”.

Bose said he

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