The Trinamool Congress on Monday criticized Union Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad for claiming that former chief secretary of state Alapan Bandyopadhyay had pulled out of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s cyclone evaluation assembly in Kalaikunda on May 28.
Senior Trinamool Congress chief and state minister Chandrima Bhattacharya mentioned there was no rationale within the Centre’s transfer to recall Bandyopadhyay 5 days after his three-month extension.
“A Union Minister today alleged that the Chief Secretary” [CS] had left the assembly. This is completely false. The Chief Secretary was with the Chief Minister and he ought to have reported to him. Both CM and CS needed to await half an hour to fulfill the PM. Is that honest?” requested Bhattacharya.
“After the people of the state were forced to move out of West Bengal in the recent assembly elections, some central leaders of the BJP are now using the phrase walk-out without realizing its true meaning,” he mentioned.
Earlier within the day, TMC’s Rajya Sabha MP Sukhendu Shekhar Ray tweeted, “In the absence of any proposal from the Center for ‘consent’ of the State below Rule 6(1) of the IAS Cadre Rules, 1954, the appointment of Chief Secretary The unilateral order for Central Service in Bengal is bigoted, vexing and prima facie unlawful. It must be quashed, cancelled.”
Earlier within the day, senior occasion chief and Rajya Sabha MP Sukhendu Shekhar Roy mentioned that Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, in a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, clearly and comprehensively said the grounds on which the Chief Secretary was to proceed her work. ought to be allowed to carry. within the state.
“At a time when West Bengal is dealing with cyclone disaster and minor assaults of the Kovid-19 pandemic, the Center shouldn’t miss the officer who’s on the helm of unintended measures. Neither the state’s views have been sought nor knowledgeable earlier than the Center known as again the CS.
He tweeted: “In the absence of any proposal from the Center for the ‘concurrence’ of the State under Rule 6(1) of the IAS Cadre Rules, 1954, the unilateral order of appointment of the Chief Secretary of Bengal to the Central Service is arbitrary, vexatious and The former is. Prima facie illegal. It needs to be deprecated, repealed.”
Meanwhile, state BJP president Dilip Ghosh on Monday refused to touch upon the tussle between the Center and the state over former state chief secretary Alapan Bandyopadhyay, who retired through the day, and mentioned it was an administrative resolution.
Ghosh advised reporters in a digital press convention, “It was an administrative resolution. We don’t have anything to say on behalf of our occasion. There are situations that the state authorities has despatched trustworthy and competent authorities officers to the necessary ready listing.
The BJP chief once more alleged that folks have been being denied aid materials within the cyclone-hit areas.
“In places where the BJP won the election, people are being asked to take relief materials from the BJP MLAs. Relief is not being given to those who vote for our party. There is no relief material in many places. It seems that the state government is engaged in politics on other issues by ignoring the relief work. The state government is not proactive in resolving the issue,” he mentioned.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
