The Trinamool Congress on Tuesday criticised the Narendra Modi government for issuing a show-cause notice to former West Bengal Chief Sec...
The Trinamool Congress on Tuesday criticised the Narendra Modi government for issuing a show-cause notice to former West Bengal Chief Secretary Alapan Bandopadhyay, The Hindu reported.
Bandopadhyay retired on Monday and was immediately appointed the chief advisor to Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. She had refused to release him after the Department of Personnel and Training, which comes under the central government, on Friday directed Bandopadhyay to report to its office at North Block in Delhi by 10 am on Monday.
After this, the Centre shot off another letter asking Bandopadhyay to comply with the May 28 order and report by Tuesday. A show-cause notice was sent to Bandopadhyay late on Monday evening under the Disaster Management Act, asking him to explain his absence from Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s meeting on Cyclone Yaas.
The Trinamool Congress leadership said the notice to the former chief secretary despite him retiring from service was an “act of vengeance”.
Trinamool Congress spokesperson and Rajya Sabha MP Sukhendu Sekhar Roy questioned why the Centre was summoning West Bengal’s top bureaucrat to Delhi after giving him a three-month extension. “The Centre seems to be guided by the logic that might is always right,” he told The Hindu. “This development indicates an ulterior motive on its part to not allow the West Bengal government to...
