In the immediate aftermath of the West Bengal chief secretary and DGP’s convocation to Delhi to discuss alleged security lapses by BJP President JP Nadda, the Union Ministry of the Interior has now requested that three IPS officers who were on duty are transferred out of state.
Bholanath Pandey (SP, Diamond Harbor), Rajeev Mishra (ADG, South Bengal) and Praveen Tripathi (DIG, Presidency Range) have been called to Delhi in the central delegation.
“Three IPS officers who were responsible for organizing security during Nadda’s visit have received the central MHA delegation. The MHA has informed the state government, ”an Interior Ministry official told News18.
This is the second case in which the central government has expelled IPS officers from West Bengal from the state. Previously CP Rajiv Kumar from Kolkata was brought into the central delegation after he sat in dharna with Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee in uniform. In May 2019, the Electoral Commission ordered Rajiv Kumar to appear before the MHA on duty.
Although IPS officials with whom News18 spoke disapproved of the tendency to use the central delegation as punishment for officials whose actions antagonize the Center, they also noted that the rules governing the IPS delegation prioritize government decisions. central in such matters.
Rule 6 (1) of the IPS cadre rules, 1954 reads: “A cadre officer with the concurrence of the state government (s) concerned state governments and the central government shall be delegated for service under the central government or another state government or under a company or association or body of natural persons, incorporated or not …
Provided that, in the event of disagreement, the matter shall be decided by the central government and the state government in question shall give effect to the decision of the central government. “
The Trinamool Congress has reacted drastically. Representative Kalyan Banerjee, in a letter to the Union Secretary of the Interior, Ajay Bhalla, criticized the measure. “The three IPS agents were deployed on December 10 in the vicinity of the scene. Their motive is very clear that by taking them they want to create pressure on the three policemen mentioned. It is shameful and dangerous that all the laws in the area have been repealed. I laugh at your action at the urging of Shri Amit Shah, ”Banerjee said.
The episode put the Mamata Banerjee government and the Center on the warpath again, and the Interior Ministry also summoned two senior state officials to the national capital on December 14 for the attack on the Nadda convoy. A defiant state government said Chief Secretary Alapan Bandopadhyay and DGP Virendra will not go.
Meanwhile, Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar, locked in a seemingly endless dispute with the Mamata Banerjee government, accused the state administration of pandering to those in power and said he sent a report to the Center on the “developments extremely disturbing. “
Nadda’s convoy was allegedly attacked with stones and bricks while en route to Diamond Harbor in Kolkata. The cars of various party leaders, including that of the BJP National Secretary General Kailash Vijayvargiya and West Bengal BJP Chief Dilip Ghosh, who were part of the convoy, were damaged in the alleged attack.
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