R-Day invite sparks row in West Bengal: Grey area between courtesy and politics

Many in the West Bengal government said that there was a massive reduction in the number of guests owing to the Covid-19 pandemic.

Agrowing popular perception is that in today's politics, courtesy means weakness. If you don't believe in courtesy, then you are seen as an aggressive and smart politician. This means that the old values of courtesy among politicians are not as important now as they once were.

However, Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar was present at the parade despite the fact that he has been taking to Twitter almost every day to criticise the West Bengal government and even CM Mamata Banerjee.

Interestingly, the TMC has held that Governor Dhankhar's tweets and regular outbursts against the elected government in West Bengal actually go against the principles of political courtesy. But he was still invited to the Republic Day parade as the state's constitutional head