Mamata Banerjee publicizes retirement of West Bengal Chief Secretary

Amidst the tussle between the Central authorities and West Bengal over Chief Secretary Alapan Bandyopadhyay, West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee has now stooped all the way down to taking part in petty video games. After refusing to alleviate Alapan Bandyopadhyay, Mamata Banerjee introduced his retirement from the submit of the state’s chief secretary. This transfer was clearly taken to disregard the central authorities’s order to launch him for additional posting on the Centre. 
Our chief secretary Alapan Bandyopadhyay retired right this moment; he’ll proceed as chief advisor to CM for subsequent three years: West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee— Press Trust of India (@PTI_News) May 31, 2021
“Since Alapan Bandyopadhyay has retired today on May 31 from his service, he is not going to join in Delhi,” Mamata stated, including that he’ll proceed because the chief advisor to CM for the subsequent three years.
“I will not allow him (Alapan Bandyopadhyay) to leave Nabanna. He is now the Chief Advisor to Chief Minister. We have appointed HK Dwivedi as the new Chief Secretary and BP Gopalika as the new Home Secretary,” Mamata Banerjee advised the media.
Centre points present trigger discover to Alapan Bandyopadhyay
This transfer got here after the Centre issued a show-cause discover to Alapan Bandyopadhyay after he did not report back to the division of personnel, public grievances and pensions (DoPT) in New Delhi right this moment (Monday). The Centre had requested the highest bureaucrat to affix tomorrow (Tuesday).
Evidently, because the central authorities had recalled West Bengal Chief Secretary to Delhi and requested the state govt to launch him with ‘immediate effect’, Mamata Banerjee, in response to her whims, determined to all of the sudden retire the WB chief Secretary solely to nominate him as her advisor from Tuesday.
Mamata Banerjee refuses to alleviate Chief Secretary
Earlier within the day, Mamata Banerjee, in her 5-page letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi refused to alleviate Alapan Bandyopadhyay, Chief Secretary, West Bengal. In her letter, she known as the union authorities’s order asking Bandyopadhyay to report back to North Block by 10 AM on Monday ‘wholly unconstitutional’. She stated, “I have been shocked and stunned by the unilateral order sent to us by the Government of India, asking us to release Sri Alapan Bandyopadhyay IAS, Chief Secretary, West Bengal, so that he may join the Government of India on May 31, 2021.”
Mamata Banerjee had requested to let Alapan Bandyopadhyay proceed because the Chief Secretary
Interestingly, Mamata Banerjee herself had requested the central authorities to permit Alapan Bandyopadhyay to proceed because the Chief Secretary of the state for one more three months. Accordingly, Bandyopadhyay’s tenure was prolonged because the chief secretary by the central authorities on May 24.
On May 24, Banerjee, whereas saying the extension, had stated: “Our chief secretary has got an extension for three months. We are happy because he has got the experience of working during last year’s Amphan as well as during the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic”.