KOLKATA: The Centre on Friday Altered Country Leader Alapan Bandyopadhyay into New Delhi and Requested him to report in the North Block from 10am on Monday.
The arrangement, that seniors at the Bengal administration known as”sudden, unprecedented and reeking of vendetta political”, arrived after the Centre accepted a threemonth expansion for its 1987-batch officer.
A letter signed by an undersecretary in the ministry of personnel, public grievances and pensions attained Nabanna on Friday day, requesting the state authorities to”alleviate Bandyopadhyay with immediate effect”.
The state chief secretary had been advised to retire on May 31 however Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee wrote to PM Narendra Modi on May 10 — 5 times after taking oath as CM for a third consecutive term — asking Bandyopadhyay be permitted to remain in his present post for three months due to the continuing pandemic.
The Centre intimated its acceptance of the petition on May 24, four days prior to the new order attained Nabanna.
Bandyopadhyay, on a trip of Bengal’s Yaas-ravaged coastal zone using the CM, failed to respond to the purchase but elders at the government known as the Centre’s flip-flop”sudden and unprecedented”.
“It isn’t clear how this sort of a’fundamental deputation arrangement’ applies to IAS officers who haven’t applied for any fundamental deputation,” an officer said.
CM Banerjee, also, didn’t respond immediately to the fundamental arrangement but people near her said she had been”clearly miserable”.
“She mentioned Bengal’s Covid struggle within her correspondence to the PM and believed it was significant that Bandyopadhyay, head of the state disaster management ability, keep.
The situation hasn’t changed in four times.
And, combined with Covid, Bengal is currently battling the Effects of Yaas.
So, quite obviously, this choice isn’t administrative but completely political, aimed at approving Bengal if it’s facing many issues,” a senior aide said.
Trinamool Congress MP Sukhendu Sekhar Ray asked”how poor that the Modi-Shah’s BJP could stoop”.
“Has this happened since Freedom? Forced central deputation of a country CS.
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All because individuals of Bengal ashamed the duo and picked Mamata Banerjee having an overwhelming mandate,” he further added.
Additional Trinamool seniors detained BJP of”quite definitely indulging in vendetta politics” and also”prioritising politics across individuals”.
“The main secretary is based on the brink of retirement.
His devotion to his devotion, particularly after dropping his younger brother into Covid, continues to be exemplary.
The BJP would like to maintain Bengal disturbed,” party spokesperson Kunal Ghosh explained.
BJP state general secretary Sayantan Basu, nevertheless, refused to find any politics at an”administrative decision”.
Central government rules state an officer could also be deputed to the Centre or another nation and, even if there’s any”debate”, states need to comply the Centre’s choice.
The Centre past year invoked an identical clause to move three IPS officers however that the Bengal government refused to publish them.
All 3 officers nevertheless function in the nation.
