KOLKATA: Former Bengal main secretary Alapan Bandyopadhyay wrote into the Union home ministry on Thursday, denying he’d”abstained” by PM Narendra Modi’s May 28 cyclone review assembly in Kalaikunda.
Bandyopadhyay, today CM Mamata Banerjee’s main advisor, stated he attended the interview and subsequently left Mamata’s directions — to whom he was used to”report” because the state chief secretary — to run and organize post-cyclone inspection meetings from East Midnapore.
New main secretary H Dwivedi wrote another letter into the central section of training and personnel, saying Bandyopadhyay retired from service on Monday — until the central administration’s next letter instructing him to report on Delhi’s North Block came back.
He’d chosen to not take the three-month expansion granted him on May 24 prior to getting the next correspondence, Dwivedi’s letter said.
“Both answers are delivered,” a senior state administration officer affirmed.
The Union home ministry issued the note to Bandyopadhyay on Monday, asking him to explain why action shouldn’t be dismissed against him under the Disaster Management Act, 2005, rather than attending the PM’s inspection interview on May 28.
The state government has insisted the CM and the prior state chief secretary had a short discussion with the PM and abandoned after trying his consent, a stage denied from the Centre.
Mamata, also, composed a five-page correspondence into PM Modi on Monday, stating it’d be unfortunate when the Centre’s”illegal and overburdened” moves against Bandyopadhyay were a part of its”anti-Bengal political vendetta after being refused by Bengal’s voters at the meeting polls”.
Banerjee iterated on Wednesday the Bandyopadhyay appreciated the Bengal government’s”full service…
on anything was happening with him”.
The Centre’s note to Bandyopadhyay on Monday reported the”PM along with other members of the entourage” waited 15 seconds to country officials to get there.
The CM and also her former chief secretary came when left and called”instantly”.
By abstaining from a meeting convened by the Modi, and the National Disaster Management Authority chairperson, Bandyopadhyay”refused to obey the lawful management of the central authorities” and broken sections of this law, the note stated.
Senior officials at Bengal, however, countered this, stating Yaas hadn’t been declared a”tragedy” in the moment and — according to the Centre’s note — Bandyopadhyay didn’t bypass the PM’s inspection meeting.
Anyway, many folks that weren’t a part of this NDMA were invited into the meeting, also, they claimed.