West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday claimed that Alapan Bandyopadhyay is a closed chapter now, however asserted that her administration will stand by the previous chief secretary of the state on the row over his not becoming a member of the central authorities.
“Alapan Bandyopadhyay chapter is over now. The West Bengal authorities will give full assist to Alapan Bandyopadhyay in no matter goes round with him,” Banerjee advised reporters when requested about her authorities’s stance on the fiasco.
Bandopadhyay was set to retire on Could 31, however the state had lately sought and acquired permission for extension of his tenure by three months as he performed a vital position within the struggle in opposition to the COVID-19 pandemic.
He was, nonetheless, handed over a switch directive by the Centre, shortly after a row broke out over Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s post-cyclone evaluation assembly, which the CM and the state chief secretary didn’t attend.
The bureaucrat, as an alternative of reporting to Delhi, selected to retire amid the Centre-state tussle. He was subsequently appointed because the CM’s chief adviser.
The Union House Ministry has served a show-cause discover on Bandyopadhyay underneath a stringent provision of the Catastrophe Administration Act that entails imprisonment as much as two years, amid a tug-of-war between the Centre and the Mamata Banerjee authorities over him.
Bandyopadhyay has already began working because the chief adviser and was current at Wednesday’s assembly of the state Irrigation division presided over by Banerjee.