Central deputation: TMC questions Home Ministry request

The Trinamool Congress management on Saturday stated the Union Home Ministry has despatched a letter to the West Bengal authorities asking them to connect three IPS officers who had been deployed through the J.P. Nadda go to to the Diamond Harbour and ship them for deputation. The celebration described the communication as an try and put stress on the police and paperwork of the State.

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The improvement comes a day after the Union Home Ministry has issued summons to the Chief Secretary and the DGP to attend a gathering in Delhi on the law-and-order. The Chief Secretary has sought an exemption from showing in it.

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“Now I come to another letter, 11 December 2020, whereby you named three IPS officers for Central deputation. All the three IPS officers were deployed by 10th December 2020 at the place of occurrence. Your motive is clear that by taking them you want create pressure upon them,” stated TMC MP Kalyan Banerjee in a letter written to Union Home Secretary Ajay Bhalla on Saturday. 

Later within the day, the TMC held a press convention saying the Centre can ship a request for deputation however the State has the authority whether or not to launch the officers or not. “The provisions are quite clear. The IAS/IPS officers are governed by Article 312. After they are selected, they are allotted States and made their cadre. They may go to the Centre on deputation but the Centre has to ask for names from the State government and then the State has to give them clarification…unless the State releases them, they cannot go,” senior chief Saugata Roy stated.

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Sources within the State authorities stated the three officers are the SP, Diamond Harbour police district, the DIG Presidency Range and the IG, South Bengal. Like the Centre’s directive to attend the assembly on the law-and-order, the State authorities is more likely to flip down the request of the Centre. 

Political vindictiveness alleged

Earlier within the day, in his letter Mr. Banerjee stated legislation and order is throughout the area of the State below the seventh Schedule of the Constitution. “How can you call both the officers for any sort of discussion on in respect of law-and-order ? Can you, under the Constitution and any other law, intervene,” he requested.

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The TMC lawmaker charged the Union Home Ministry with political vindictiveness. 

“You are trying to coerce the officers of the State. It also appears you are interfering with the federal structure embodied under the scheme of the Constitution.” The BJP management stated Mr. Banerjee has no authority to write down to the Union Home Secretary.