West Bengal’s former chief secretary Alapan Bandyopadhyay has responded to the Union home ministry’s show-cause notice sent to him for missing Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s meeting on May 28.
Bandopadhyay is believed to have written to the Centre that he did not "abstain" from PM Modi's Cyclone Yaas meeting and that he was there "till the Chief Minister was there".
He has said "as per the directive of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee", he left the meeting for a review of the damage caused by Cyclone Yaas in Digha town, according to sources quoted by Press Trust of India.