Alapan Bandyopadhyay, now advisor to CM Mamata Banerjee, gets show-cause notice from Centre

The Centre has now reportedly issued a discover to Bandyopadhyay for allegedly skipping the assembly chaired by PM Narendra Modi over cyclone Yaas.

The continuing energy tussle between the West Bengal authorities and the Centre will not be showing to cool down with now-retired IAS officer Alapan Bandyopadhyay changing into the most recent flashpoint. The Centre has now reportedly issued a discover to Bandyopadhyay for allegedly skipping the assembly chaired by PM Narendra Modi over cyclone Yaas. The show-cause discover issued below the Catastrophe Administration Act yesterday requested him to elucidate his absence from the assembly. He has been requested to reply inside three days.

The discover alleged that PM Modi and different members waited for almost quarter-hour for the officers of the Bengal authorities to reach however he didn’t flip up. “In view of the absence, the Chief Secretary (Mr Bandyopadhay) was referred to as by an official as to whether or not they wished to take part within the evaluate assembly or not. Thereafter, the Chief Secretary arrived together with the Chief Minister of West Bengal contained in the assembly room and left thereafter instantly,” the letter says.

Whereas it comes below the purview of the state authorities to take disciplinary motion towards an officer working below the state, on this case, the Centre’s discover has been issued on the argument that the Chief Secretary refused to attend a gathering chaired by the PM and referred to as by the Centre.

In one other letter issued yesterday, the Centre had despatched a reminder to Bandyopadhyay to report back to the Personnel Ministry in Delhi at 10 AM right now, i.e. June 1. The letter stated that disciplinary motion could be initiated towards him if he fails to look. Quickly after the letter was despatched to Alapan Bandyopadhyay, who was given a 3 months extension by the Centre on the Bengal authorities’s request, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee introduced that the chief secretary has retired and has been appointed advisor to the CM for 3 years. Bandyopadhyay had opted to retire on Might 31, the day of his superannuation.

Mamata Banerjee had earlier written to PM Narendra Modi, requesting him to rescind the Centre’s order recalling Bandyopadhyay whereas refusing to launch the highest bureaucrat.