Top 5 News Trends in India | December 17
Top 5 News Trends in India | December 17
From Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal tearing copies of the Centre s three new farm laws in the Delhi Legislative Assembly to French President Emmanuel Macron testing positive for Covid-19, here are the top 3 news trends in India:
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Top 5 News Trends in India | December 17
The Supreme Court said the farmers protest must continue but added that Delhi cannot be blocked. In other top news items, the Centre-Bengal tussle escalated; Virat Kohli s run-out hurt India in Adelaide; UK recorded its first official air pollution death; and French President Emmanuel Macron tested positive for Covid-19.
MHA transfers 3 IPS officers from WB, Mamata calls it unconstitutional ANI | Updated: Dec 17, 2020 17:16 IST
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], December 17 (ANI): The Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) issued transfer orders of three IPS officers from West Bengal, sending them on central deputation on Thursday, a move West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee termed unconstitutional , calling it a colourable exercise of power .
As per reports, officer Bholanath Pandey has been transferred to the Bureau of Police Research and Development, Rajeev Mishra to Indo-Tibetan Border Police and Praveen Tripathi has been sent to Sashastra Seema Bal. The MHA has asked the Government of West Bengal to relieve the officers for their respective new postings.
The Centre Thursday shot off a fresh letter to the West Bengal government to immediately relieve its three IPS officers for central deputation, provoking a combative Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee to brand the move as unconstitutional and unacceptable . A defiant Banerjee also declared she will not allow the brazen attempt to control the state machinery by proxy , in escalation of tension between the state and the Centre. Five days after the West Bengal government said it will not relieve the three IPS officers, the Centre sent a fresh missive on Thursday, asking the state to immediately release them so they could take up their new assignments.
Centre asks Bengal to relieve three IPS officers immediately; Mamata calls order blatant misuse of power The three IPS officers were directed to join the central deputation for alleged dereliction of duties after JP Nadda s convoy was attacked on 10 December during his state visit File photo of Mamata Banerjee. PTI
Slamming the central government for ordering the West Bengal government to relieve three IPS officers, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said, Centre s order on deputation of three IPS officers is a blatant misuse of power, Bengal won t cow-down before expansionist , undemocratic forces .
The Centre had asked the West Bengal government on Thursday to immediately relieve 3 IPS officers for joining central deputation, saying all of them were already given new assignments, according to officials.
Blatant misuse of emergency rules : Mamata Banerjee on Centre’s fresh letter on IPS officers transfer
The three officers, Bholanath Pandey, Rajeev Mishra and Praveen Tripathi, were asked to report for central deputation a day after an attack on BJP president JP Nadda s convoy near Kolkata last week. . December 17, 2020 / 05:30 PM IST
Dhubri: West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress President Mamata Banerjee speaks during an election rally ahead of the Lok Sabha Polls in Dhubri, Friday, April 5, 2019. (PTI Photo)(PTI4 5 2019 000057B)
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on December 17 fumed at the Centre for deputing three IPS officers out of the state calling it a ‘blatant misuse of emergency provisions under the law.