New Delhi: The Union Government recalls West Bengal Chief Secretary Alapan Bandyopadhyay to the Department of Personnel and Training’s Office in Delhi. The Union Government asked the State Government to send Chief Secretary to Delhi by May 31^st morning to the Department of Personnel and Training’s Office.

This development came out hours after Mamatha Banerjee skipped a meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi to assess the impact of Cyclone Yaas, choosing instead a quick 15-minute interaction with Modi at an airbase.

She was to attend a cyclone damage review with him but left after handing him a report. The Centre alleged Banerjee kept him and Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar waiting for half-an-hour. Bengal Chief Secretary Alapan Bandyopadhyay’s tenure was extended for three months only four days ago, before Friday’s order to recall him to the Centre came.

TMC MP Sukhendu Sekhar Ray criticised the Centre’s move to recall the top officer. How much lower will Modi-Shah’s BJP stoop? All because people of Bengal humiliated the duo and chose Mamata Banerjee with an overwhelming mandates.

This is not the first time the Centre has recalled top bureaucrats from states to Delhi. Just before the assembly election in Bengal this year, three IPS officers were recalled. The Home Ministry is the cadre controlling authority for IPS officers, while the DoPT, which gave the order today to recall the Bengal Chief Secretary, comes under the PMO.