KOLKATA: Bengal main secretary Alapan Bandyopadhyay on Monday chosen for superannuation rather than reporting on Delhi’s North Block as guided at last Friday’s principal authorities arrangement.
His conclusion had been accompanied by an announcement by Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee devoting him as the”main advisor to the CM” for a period of 3 decades.
Bandyopadhyay’s superannuation and appointment to the new article capped a day of dramatic developments that watched CM Banerjee compose a letter to PM Narendra Modi, requesting him to draw the”unilateral, unconstitutional and extravagant” arrangement, and another letter in the Centre requesting Bandyopadhyay to report Delhi on Tuesday.
Banerjee’s five-page correspondence to Modi encouraged him to”rescind” the arrangement served on Bandyopadhyay and stated Bengal”can’t discharge, and isn’t publishing, its main secretary in this crucial hour”.
“The ord-er/directive is legally untenable, historically unprecedented and totally unconstitutional,” it added.
There was not any answer for this missive however, the 2nd central authorities arrangement to Bandyopadhyay attained Nabanna a little until 5 pm following the 1987-batch officer decided to choose superannuation rather than accepting the three-month expansion.
This letter called the IAS (Cadre) Rules, 1954, also emphasized the Centre’s decision will prevail in the event of any disagreement with the nation on fundamental deputations.
It advised Bandyopadhyay he was set on central deputation with”immediate impact” and has been led to rep-ort into North Block from 10am on Tuesday.
Bandyopadhyay hasn’t commented about both fundamental authorities letters however his colleagues have talked about his”sense of hurt and feel of bewilderment” in how things have been turned out.
CM Banerjee suggested that she’d respond to this Centre’s second sequence to Bandyopadhyay.
“The Centre is possibly unaware that because the day of May 31, his (Bandyopadhyay’s) day of retirement, his solutions are no more accessible,” the CM said, adding that he’d keep working in Nabanna post-retirement because her main advisor for 3 years together with extra cost of this Administrative Training Institute (ATI).
“We want his services seriously.
He’s worked tirelessly to attract Covid under command (in Bengal).
We won’t let him depart Nabanna,” she explained.
The CM said that the center’s”pettiness and vindictiveness” had no precedence from post-Independent India.
“I admire him (Bandyopadhyay) because of his courage, boldness, honesty and sincerity.
The way the bureaucrat has been victimised could stay etched ever,” she added.
“I do not really know what occurred between your letting extension May 24, following a centre-state appointment, along with also your unilateral order (four days after ) contradicting the expansion given by you.
I genuinely hope this new arrangement isn’t associated with my interview with you in Kalaikunda.
If this be why, it could be miserable, unlucky and could amount to losing public attention in the forefront of misplaced priorities,” Banerjee’s Monday’s correspondence to Modi stated.
The improvements began last Friday, after having a”short” interaction involving PM Modi and CM Banerjee at Kalaikunda — about the harm Bengal had endured due to Cyclone Yaas — hauled into a political slugfest.
The BJP charged her by ignoring the”soul of federalism” by not touching a lawsuit chaired by the PM.
Not therefore, Banerjee stated; she fulfilled Modi after the first meeting program was altered and new invitees left and added for a review of East Midnapore’s cyclone-affected components after”searching the PM’s consent”.
The state chief secretary followed Banerjee for this review and, a couple of hours afterwards, obtained the center’s order to record to Delhi from Momday morning.
This came after the central government declared a three-month expansion for him after a state authorities petition since it desired him to become the first secretary in light of this pandemic.
A day later, on Saturday, CM Banerjee appealed to PM Modi to remember the”unprecedented sequence, directed by political vendetta”.
Bandyopadhyay on Monday attended a series of meetings dealing with Bengal’s Covid response along with also the post-Yaas situation in the state’s headquarters, Nabanna.
The two Banerjee’s correspondence to Modi — requesting the withdrawal of this change sequence on Bandyopadhyay — along with Bandyopadhyay’s choice to retire arrived on Monday, that have been followed closely with the next sequence from the center.