By selling IPS officer needed by Centre on central deputation, Mamata Govt has given a message to TMC goons

Following the deadly assault on the convoy of BJP National President JP Nadda and different senior leaders of the saffron social gathering by the political goons of West Bengal earlier in December, the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) had summoned three IPS officers of the West Bengal cadre on central deputation. These officers have been tasked with the safety detailing of the BJP President, a job through which they visibly failed. Now, even because the MHA continues to hunt authoritatively for the three IPS officers to be launched by the state authorities, the Mamata administration has promoted one of them, furthering obstinacy in opposition to the Central authorities’s will.By transferring two of the three officers needed by the Central authorities on central deputation instantly, Mamata Banerjee has successfully despatched a robust message to the police drive in West Bengal. The message is troubling, to say the least, and unconstitutionally reeks of sovereign behaviour in opposition to the Central authorities as effectively. The three IPS officers, who have been accountable for guaranteeing the security of JP Nadda throughout his go to to South Bengal clearly failed within the process.Whether they failed intentionally or not is topic of debate, nevertheless, Mamata Banerjee going out of her technique to defend them indicators to the police drive within the state that lapses on their social gathering when coping with the BJP can have no penalties. Further, the police drive will benefit from the patronage Mamata Banerjee in the event that they toe her line in opposition to the BJP. The West Bengal police, as such, has been became a private drive of the Chief Minister, whom she makes use of to focus on political opponents at will.The three officers have been transferred together with a batch of 17 others within the state. Out of the 20 transfers, 13 officers have been promoted. Rajeev Mishra, who was the Inspector General, South Bengal, has been promoted because the ADG, South Bengal. Bholanath Pandey, who was the Diamond Harbour SP, has now been transferred to a lesser important submit of SP, Home Guard. These two IPS officers have been in-charge of Nadda’s safety when his convoy was attacked on 10 December. Praveen Kumar Tripathi DIG (Presidency Range), who was additionally in-charge of JP Nadda’s safety was stored on the identical submit.The MHA had known as the three officers on central deputations, for the next posts: Bholanath Pandeyas SP within the Bureau of Police Research and Development; Pravin Kumar Tripathi as DIG in Sashastra Seema Bal and Rajiv Mishra as IG within the Indo-Tibetan Border Police. TFI had earlier reported that whereas the rulebook states that the IPS officers are despatched on deputation to the Centre with the state’s consent, nevertheless, as per Rule 6 of the IPS Cadre Rules, 1954 – if the Centre and state have been to disagree over an officer’s deputation, the Centre’s will would prevail.Read extra: ‘Obey the rule of law or expect consequences,’ Amit Shah sends a stern warning to Mamata and her loyalist IPS officers in West BengalRegardless of Mamata Banerjee being conscious of the truth that her defiance of the central authorities on the stated subject won’t yield something in her favour, the TMC supremo is utilizing no matter time she has to sign to the state’s police drive that it’s her, and her administration that they have to obey. If they achieve this and act as puppets of the TMC regime, they might be protected by a minimum of the Chief Minister, who will exit of her technique to safe the stated officers for toeing her line, within the contestation of their precise duties.Mamata Banerjee may wish to rethink her current technique of patronising law enforcement officials. In all probability, the BJP will win the following meeting elections, and subsequently, Mamata Banerjee won’t be able to train the extent of management and affect she at the moment enjoys over the state’s police drive. Hence, it’s not value carving an authoritarian and unconstitutional picture for oneself, all when there aren’t any real-time possibilities of her being sworn in because the Chief Minister as soon as once more.