New Delhi: Amid the continued verbal battle with West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led authorities on Tuesday issued a show-cause discover to lately retired state’s chief secretary Alapan Bandyopadhyay asking him to elucidate his absence from Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s assembly on cyclone Yaas.
An official acquainted with the event stated the Union Home Ministry, which has issued discover to Bandyopadhyay beneath the Disaster Management Act, is prone to provoke disciplinary proceedings in opposition to him for defying the order asking him to report back to Delhi on Monday, information company PTI reported.
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The 1987-batch Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer, who has been given three days’ time to answer the show-cause discover, retired earlier on Monday because the state’s chief secretary.
This growth comes a day after the West Bengal Chief Minister appointed Bandyopadhyay as her chief adviser after permitting him to retire on his final working day whereas taking potshots at Prime Minister Modi over the bureaucrat’s switch.
Bandyopadhyay, who earlier declined a three-month extension granted to him, was recalled final week by the Centre hours after Banerjee skipped a scheduled assembly on cyclone Yaas with Prime Minister Modi.
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The Chief Minister has since emphasised that she had different scheduled conferences and needed to fly out for these on the earliest as a result of unhealthy climate. The Trinamool Congress (TMC) supremo has additionally categorically acknowledged that she left solely with Prime Minister Modi’s permission.
The Centre later lashed out at her for behaving in an “ugly, disrespectful and arrogant manner” and insulting the Prime Minister with Union Ministers Amit Shah and Rajnath Singh main the cost.
