Kolkata: West Bengal Governor C V Ananda Bose faced denial of access to the Salt Lake Stadium following disorder and crowd unrest that disrupted an event starring football icon Lionel Messi.

Bose labelled the Saturday evening entry refusal as an insult to the governor's constitutional office and demanded explanations from officials.

"I never write a report without seeing the spot... My report is half-ready. I want to see for myself what happened in Ground Zero," he informed reporters outside the venue.

"Is this the way West Bengal treats its governor? The governor is not a rubber stamp," Bose declared, calling the incident a "ghastly irrelevance of a constitutional authority".

The governor announced plans to return to the stadium on Sunday for a thorough probe.

"It is not a personal a

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