Mamata Banerjee snubs Centre’s order, refuses to release Bengal Chief Secretary Alapan Bandyopadhyay

Mamata Banerjee stated {that a} ‘unilateral letter’ was issued with none session and is ‘legally untenable, traditionally unprecedented and wholly unconstitutional’.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi refusing to launch state Chief Secretary Alapan Bandyopadhyay, who was abruptly recalled to Delhi days after he obtained a three-month extension. In her letter to PM Modi, Mamata stated that the state authorities can’t launch its Chief Secretary in ‘vital hours’. “I have to confess that I’ve been shocked and surprised by the unilateral order dated twenty eighth Could, 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 part of the Authorities of India on thirty first Could, 2021, the conventional date of his superannuation,” stated Banerjee in her letter.

She stated {that a} ‘unilateral letter’ was issued with none session and is ‘legally untenable, traditionally unprecedented and wholly unconstitutional’. “With unilateral and non-consultative order being issued, the federal system is drastically endangered and severely undermined,” she stated.

Mamata Banerjee additionally stated that the Centre’s order doesn’t present any particulars, causes as to why the central deputation of Alapan Bandyopadhyay is required all of a sudden in Delhi and that too only some days after granting an order of extension.

“I subsequently humbly request you to withdraw, recall, rethink your resolution and rescind the most recent so-called order within the bigger public curiosity. The Authorities of West Bengal can’t launch, and isn’t releasing, its Chief Secretary at this vital hour, on the premise of our understanding that the sooner order of extension, issued after lawful session in accordance with relevant legal guidelines, stays operational and legitimate,” stated Mamata Banerjee.

CM Mamata Banerjee additionally raised the problem of Suvendu Adhikari’s presence within the assembly referred to as by PM Modi in wake of cyclone Yaas. She stated that ‘a person MLA, having no locus, attending the assembly was unacceptable’.

The Centre on Friday night time had sought Bandyopadhyay’s companies and requested the state authorities to instantly launch the highest bureaucrat. He was requested to report back to Delhi at 10 am as we speak. Bandyopadhyay, a 1987-batch IAS officer of the West Bengal cadre, was scheduled to retire on Could 31 after completion of 60 years of age.