Bengal Govt takes a stand over Partha Chatterjee’s trusted bureaucrats

Kolkata 6 August : Since Partha Chatterjee was removed of all portfolios of ministerial and party The bureaucrats, who were regarded as close associates of the former West Bengal Minister, has begun to feel the heat of the administrative process.

The one with the highest rank is Sukanta Achya, a West Bengal Civil Service (Executive Office) who was the personal assistant of Chatterjee during his time as the minister of education for the state, and also during the time he was the commerce and industries minister.The 2016 West Bengal Assembly election, Acharya was also the return officer for the Behala (West) district Behala (West) constituency, where Chatterjee was the five-time Trinamool Congress legislator since 2001.

The second bureaucrat placed with the same mandatory waiting order that will last for an indefinite amount of time is Probir Bandopadhyay, an officer on special duty for the state Parliamentary Affairs Department, which was under Chatterjees supervision since 2011 , when Trinamool was elected to power in West Bengal for the first time in the 34 years of Left Front rule.Acharya was in the Enforcement Directorates (ED) investigation since the central government was able to take charge of the probe of the multi-crore West Bengal School Service Commission (WBSSC) recruitment irregularities scam.

He was detained and interrogated a number of times, and his home was also searched by the agency investigating.On the other the other hand, as per the state personnel and administration reforms department sources there has been no government agency-wide action against Bandopadhyay until now "But the instruction of placing them in mandatory waiting orders for an indefinite time was issued from the highest level.

We believe we will see more mandatory waiting orders and warning letters in the days ahead," said an officer of the department.Sending police and bureaucrats to compulsory waiting lists in West Bengal had been an ongoing practice since the year 2011.

The most relevant case had been that of the former Indian Police Service (IPS) officer Gaurav Chandra Dotti, who retired on a voluntary basis after being in mandatory waiting for seven years.He later committed suicide after being refused of certain retirement benefits.

But, this is for the time that two officers who were believed to be very close to the states ruling party were put to compulsory waiting, and for an indefinite time.src/ .