Bengal Officer Caught In Mamata Banerjee-Centre Clash Gets Notice

 The News Cover: the officer in the core, of the latest flash point between chief minister mamata banerjee and prime minister reydar bodhi has been served noticed by the centre for skipping a meeting. that was chaired by the prime minister mr alapan bandyopadhyay retired yesterday. as begos chief secretary and was immediately appointed as the chief advisor to the state government by mamata banerjee. who had refused to release him after center ordered his transfer on friday, ashoka's notice put out last evening asked him to explain his absence from that very meeting on cyclone in bengal. the center has served notice under, the disaster management act and asked mr alapan bandyopadhyay there to respond within three days. now the governor of west bengal has put, out a tweet saying that in order to constrained by false narrative to put the record straight on the 27th of may. i talk urgent therefore on the phone it indicated there was a plan to boycott, the meeting by the chief minister mamata banerjee there was a plan to boycott bihar and officials of the prime minister's review meet. 

is what he has put out in a tweet now. we have the governor is alleging this that there was a plan to boycott that meeting by mamata Banerjee. the state versus center the political fight seems to continue well the governor of west bengal has been playing a political role and many would say going much beyond, his constitutional role or the role that he's supposed to play but in all of this this has become a political issue. and the governor is adding to the politics of it obviously at this point it's one person's word against another's the chief minister says she met the prime minister she asked for his permission and left. now the governor says there was a plan to boycott but obviously all of this is affecting the bureaucracy, and why is it affecting the bureaucracy because it's the former chief secretary who was given an extension for covid management in the middle of a pandemic mamata manager did not want to change your guard in the as far as the head of administration is concerned and in all of this you've seen now. 

the fallout of this is not only political in terms, of the acrimonious battle that we've seen between the tmc and the bjp but also in terms of center-state relations federal issues federalism because all of this at the end of the day moving officers from carders or moving them to central deputation is something that's usually done. in consultation and there has to be consultation, on these issues but in this case it seems to have been done completely unilaterally now. the center is saying in its showcase notice before earlier, it had just asked him to report to delhi. which he refused to do he then retired and was appointed chief advisor to the chief minister. now the center in a show called notice is saying, it's because of the meeting but this is something that mamata energy raised in a letter earlier she had she said. i hope the prime minister, i hope this has got nothing to do with our meeting at kalai kunda but the issue really is at a time. 

when there's a pandemic at a time. when there are sites there's a cyclone, that has devastated the state should this kind of politics be happening and mamata banerjee has said that this is only because the bjp hasn't been able to stomach its defeat in bengal. and they are going they are targeting, her but because she's won this massive majority they are. now targeting her officers including the chief secretary, who's the top most administrative official in the state. and this is something that's going to play out in the next few days, obviously we've not seen the end of this and a political battle is brewing between mamata banerjee, and narendra modi, and several a bureaucrat is also caught in the middle of it and also what you see is an ugly confrontation between the center and the state which mamata energy accuses prime minister modi of adding to and always adding to confrontation when it comes to bengal.

Bengal News: Top Bengal Officer Likely To Snub Central Order To Move To Delhi

The News Cover: we're tracking the deadline for the West Bengal chief secretary alapan Bandyopadhyay ends today at 10 this morning remember Mr. Bandyopadhyay has been asked, to report to the dopt office at the north block by the center, in an unprecedented order after the bureaucrat skipped a detailed meeting with the prime minister last week that involved the governor and leader of the opposition. in the state, the chief minister and the chief secretary instead met the prime minister handed over documents of assessment of the damage caused by cyclone yaas the chief minister Mamata Banerjee has accused. the prime minister of insulting his officers and creating a confrontation with Bengal. well, let's go what are you hearing, well it's unlikely at this point we cannot say we can confirm this but it's unlikely that the chief secretary alapan will report to Delhi at 10 30 as that order from the center asks him to do.

 what we're being given to understand, is that he has scheduled meetings and a video conference probably from his office and those meetings are of course on a schedule. so obviously this is something that's likely to continue he's also scheduled to have other meetings in the day. so his chances of going to New Delhi at this point, seem to be very slim he's also not been relieved by the Bengal government and what we know is that the center of course has not spoken since that the letter was sent. but the Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee has appealed to the center to withdraw that unprecedented order, and at this point, we know that the chief secretary drove to his office on Sunday evening and spent several hours in office there so he was at work even on Sunday but the chances of him going to Delhi today at 10:30 by the deadline seem very slim at this point right this is an unprecedented order and the situation of the chief secretary is also a little different than other is officers because he is somebody. 

who is on an extension, so this also creates as in it's something that no one has dealt with and what rule really applies in such a case given that he's already on a three-month extension to deal with the cyclone and covid situation. well, this extension to the chief minister was due to retire on 31st May, which is today this extension for three months was given by the center after Mamata Banerjee the West Bengal chief minister wrote a letter to the center specifically saying. that for covid for the cyclone relief that he's been working. on we need him to continue and therefore those three months of the extension was given to him that is something that was given by the center so this order after he was given that extension seems a little out of place at least to anyone observing these things and anyone who's conversant with these matters but at this point, it is really it's likely to end up in the courts given the fact that caveats have been filed with the cat the center central administrative tribunal and also the courts but how this is going to play out there are two ways, of course, it's going to be a central state issue federal state and house center state relations while the authority is there but it's also going to play out politically because the Trinamool says all of this is because the BJP hasn't been able to digest its defeat in Bengal and wants to continue targeting the tribal government.