CALCUTTA: west bengalThe challenge to central directives continued on Monday when both Chief Secretary Alapan Bandyopadhyay and DGP Virendra he did not show up for a state law and order meeting with the Union Secretary of the Interior, Ajay Bhalla, in Delhi.
Senior officials said the state had yet to get a response from the Center to his two letters, one on the summons to the chief secretary and the DGP and the other on the central delegation of three IPS officers from Bengal, reports Debasish Konar.
The Union Interior Ministry had last week ordered the chief secretary and the head of state police to meet Bhalla in his office on Monday.
The Union Ministry of the Interior had last week directed the Chief Secretary and the Chief of State Police to meet with Interior Secretary Ajay Bhalla in his office on Monday to discuss law and order in context. of three attacks against BJP convoy of national president JP Nadda.
A day later, the Center ordered that three IPS officers stationed in the state – South bengal IGP Rajeev Mishra, rank of presidency DIG Praveen Kumar Tripathi and Diamond Harbor SP Bholanath Pandey: will be sent to Delhi in central delegation.
In response to the call for him and DGP Virendra to meet in Delhi, Chief Secretary Bandyopadhyay had requested that his “assistance” be “dispensed with” as the state government was “already” addressing the situation following the attacks on Nadda’s convoy. and that several people had been arrested.
Later, the Bengal government, in another letter, hinted to the Center of its inability to release the three policemen for the central delegation, citing as one reason the still ongoing fight against the pandemic. While the state government claimed to await responses from the Center, Bandyopadhyay and Virendra stayed in Bengal and did their “routine work,” authorities said.
The state government is exploring legal avenues on communication with respect to the three IPS agents, the officials added, hinting that there was no possibility of their release on Tuesday (as required by the Center).
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