Alapan Bandyopadhyay is a 1987-batch IAS officer of the West Bengal cadre.
The controversy surrounding Alapan Bandyopadhyay, West Bengal’s former Chief Secretary, is refusing to die because the bureaucrat has been served a show-cause notice by the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT). Bandyopadhyay has been asked to clarify why motion shouldn’t be taken in opposition to him for overlooking the earlier order to report to New Delhi.
In one other letter, Bandyopadhyay, a 1987-batch IAS officer of West Bengal cadre, has been asked to report to New Delhi at 10 AM, Tuesday, June 1.
According to sources, the federal government is considering requisite motion in opposition to him.
Mamata appoints Alapan Bandyopadhyay as Chief Advisor
Earlier within the day, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee appointed Bandyopadhyay as Chief Advisor for 3 years efficient from Tuesday, after permitting the bureaucrat who was ordered by the central authorities to report to Delhi, to retire.
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The chief minister advised newspersons right here that the central authorities had asked Bandopadhyay to report to Delhis North Block on Tuesday, however she added an officer can’t be a part of a brand new workplace with out permission from the state administration.
“The CS got a letter from the Centre asking him to join North Block by tomorrow. This is not a reply to my letter but to the CS. I have not received any reply from it to the letter which I had sent earlier today,” she mentioned.
“We are not relieving him (Bandopadhyay). He has superannuated today, but he will act as chief advisor to the CM for the next three years,” Banerjee mentioned.
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The chief minister earlier within the day had written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi requesting him to withdraw the Centre’s order recalling the Chief Secretary, and asserted her authorities “cannot release, and is not releasing” the highest bureaucrat.
The transfer opens up numerous prospects on potential motion by the Central authorities in opposition to the highest bureaucrat.
It additionally lays naked the adversarial relationship between the state and central authorities which has been simmering for a while and which appears to be deteriorating into what many observers described as a ‘no holds barred battle’.
The Centre, in a shock transfer, had on May 28 evening sought Bandyopadhyay’s companies and asked the state authorities to instantly launch the highest bureaucrat, hours after Banerjee met the Prime Minister at Kalaikunda airbase for quarter-hour as an alternative of an extended scheduled overview assembly of the
post-cyclone state of affairs in West Bengal.
(With inputs from businesses)
