Explained: Before Mamata, recalling when Jayalalithaa refused to send IPS officers to the Centre While declining the Centre’s demand Jayalalithaa had said, like Mamata said on Saturday, that there was already a dearth of good officers in the state, which needed those officers. Updated: December 21, 2020 3:04:12 pm Jayalalithaa and Mamata Banerjee in New Delhi in 2012. (Express Archive) In the Mamata Banerjee-led West Bengal government’s refusal to send three IPS officers on central deputation, there is an echo of a similar refusal by then Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa in 2001. In the current instance, the Centre has asked for the three IPS officers to be sent on deputation with the Government of India following an attack on BJP president J P Nadda’s motorcade outside Kolkata; these officers were in charge of security. In its refusal, the West Bengal government has cited