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Alapan Bandopadhyay, the officer in the core of the latest flashpoint between Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has been served notice by the Centre for skipping a meeting chaired by the PM.
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West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee defied protocol in a review meeting chaired by PM Modi on Cyclone Yaas, say Government of India (GoI) sources
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee defied protocol in a review meeting chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the post-cyclonic situation in the state and is misleading on the controversy surrounding chief secretary Alapan Bandyopadhyay, said Government of India (GoI) sources on Tuesday.
After the Prime Minister landed at Kalaikunda last week, Banerjee left for Digha after meeting him briefly and did not attend the review meeting over the damage caused by Cyclone Yaas. Mamata maintains she took the Prime Minister s permission before leaving but the GoI sources say that the PM Modi had not given permission to Banerjee to leave the meeting.
The West Bengal Chief Minister also urged the PM requesting to withdraw, recall, reconsider the decision and rescind the latest so-called order. The TMC chief said that she ‘shocked and stunned’ by unilateral order recalling the state’s Chief Secretary in her letter to the PM.