There never a dull day in the Mamata Vs Modi sarkaar saga. West Bengal Chief Secretary Alapan Bandyopadhyay, whose sudden transfer order from the Centre days before his retirement snowballed into a major controversy, is unlikely to report to the Department of Personnel and Training on Monday.
He is yet to get the nod from the state government, PTI has reported citing sources. The report said that Bandyopadhyay was very much present at the state secretariat ''Nabanna'' even on a Sunday.
The Centre, in a surprise move, had on Friday night sought Bandyopadhyay's services and asked the state government to immediately release the top bureaucrat.
Bandyopadhyay, a 1987-batch IAS officer of West Bengal cadre, was scheduled to retire on May 31. However, he was granted a three-month extension following a nod from the Centre to work on Covid management.
Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee had on Saturday called the Centre's decision to recall Bandyopadhyay as "unconstitutional" and "illegal".