KOLKATA: The Centre Changed West Bengal chief secretary Alapan Bandyopadhyay on Friday on New Delhi and Requested him to report in the North Block from 10am on Monday.
The arrangement, that seniors at the Bengal administration stated was”sudden, unprecedented and reeking of vendetta politics”, arrived after the Centre had accepted a three-month expansion for its 1987-batch officer.
A letter signed by an under-secretary from the ministry of personnel, public grievances and pensions attained Nabanna on Friday evening requesting the state authorities to”alleviate Bandyopadhyay with immediate effect”.
The first secretary has been advised to retire on May 31 however, CM Mamata Banerjee had composed to PM Narendra Modi on May 10 — 5 times after taking oath as CM for another term — asking Bandyopadhyay be permitted to last 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 arrangement changing out Bandhopadhyay attained Nabanna.
Bandyopadhyay, to a trip of Bengal’s Cyclone-Yaas-ravaged coastal zone together with the CM, failed to respond.
“It isn’t clear how this sort of’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 but people near her said she had been”clearly miserable”.
TMC MP Sukhendu Sekhar Ray asked”how poor that the Modi-Shah’s BJP could stoop”.
“Has this happened since Independence? Forced central deputation of a country CS.
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Since individuals of Bengal picked Mamata Banerjee having the overwhelming mandate,” he further added.
BJP state general secretary Sayantan Basu, nevertheless, saw no governmental at what he stated was a”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 had this past year invoked an identical clause to move three IPS officers however, the Bengal authorities had refused to publish them.
Each of the officers still function in the country.
