Checkmate: Chief Secretary Alapan Bandyopadhyay retires, appointed chief advisor to CM Mamata Banerjee

CM Mamata Banerjee had expressed shock over the Centre’s letter recalling Bandyopadhyay.

In a significant flip of occasions within the ongoing tussle between the Centre and Mamata Banerjee-led West Bengal authorities over the repatriation of Chief Secretary Alapan Bandyopadhyay, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee right this moment knowledgeable that Bandyopadhyay has retired right this moment and the Bengal authorities has appointed him as chief advisor to the CM for the following three years.

Notably, the Centre had first given Bandyopadhyay a three-month extension on the Bengal authorities’s request. Nonetheless, in a sudden transfer on Might 28, it requested Bandopadhyay to report back to the Division of Personnel and Coaching in Delhi right this moment. Earlier right this moment, Banerjee wrote to PM Narendra Modi refusing to launch the chief secretary who was as a result of retire right this moment. “The Authorities of West Bengal can not launch, and isn’t releasing, its Chief Secretary at this crucial hour, on the idea of our understanding that the sooner order of extension, issued after lawful session in accordance with relevant legal guidelines, stays operational and legitimate,” she wrote within the letter.

CM Mamata Banerjee had expressed shock over the Centre’s letter recalling Bandyopadhyay. “I need to confess that I’ve been shocked and surprised by the unilateral order dated twenty eighth Might, 2021 despatched to us by the Authorities of India, asking us to launch Sri Alapan Bandyopadhyay IAS, Chief Secretary, West Bengal, in order that he might be a part of the Authorities of India on thirty first Might, 2021, the traditional date of his superannuation,” Banerjee wrote to the PM in her letter.

Nonetheless, the Centre replied to her letter asking the chief secretary to hitch North Block tomorrow, Banerjee mentioned right this moment throughout the press convention. She then added that Alapan Bandyopadhyay has opted for retirement and can now serve the state authorities within the capability of chief advisor to the CM.

Banerjee mentioned that the Centre can not drive an officer to hitch it with out the consent of the state authorities. After Bandyopadhyay’s retirement, the Bengal authorities has appointed HK Dwivedi as Chief Secretary.