New Delhi: Former chief secretary of West Bengal Alapan Bandyopdhayay replied to the Centre’s show-cause notice served to him citing that he left the cyclone Yaas evaluate assembly with Prime Minister Narendra Modi on May 28 as per the directive of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee to evaluate storm-hit Digha.
The Union Home Ministry had on May 31 served a show-cause notice to Bandyopadhyay beneath a stringent provision Disaster Management Act to clarify his absence from the assembly, a highly-placed official within the secretariat instructed PTI.
Notably, Bandyopadhyay was set to retire because the chief secretary on May 31, however the state just lately sought and obtained permission for extension of his tenure for 3 months as he performed a vital position within the struggle towards the COVID-19 pandemic.
However, he was given a switch notice by the Centre however the bureaucrat, as an alternative of reporting to Delhi, selected to retire and he was subsequently appointed because the CM’s chief adviser.
On May 31, Alapan Bandopadhyay retired from his workplace and was concurrently appointed as Chief Advisor to Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. Banerjee in a media briefing introduced that she had appointed Alapan Bandopadhyay as her chief advisor for the subsequent three years.
A row broke out between the Centre and the state over the prime minister’s post-cyclone evaluate assembly at Kalaikunda airbase, which the CM and state chief secretary didn’t attend. Banerjee, together with the chief secretary, met the prime minister for round quarter-hour and left after handing over a report on the devastation attributable to the cyclone within the state.
