MAMATA VS MODI, PART 2
It has been a stormy first month in office for Mamata Banerjee in her third term as West Bengal chief minister. The BJP top leadership seems to have taken the election defeat to heart and has kept up the pressure on her government. Multiple central teams have descended on the state to “review the law and order situation” and investigating agencies seem to have suddenly woken up to scams that have dragged on for years.
The latest in the ongoing fracas was the Centre’s recall of West Bengal chief secretary Alapan Bandyopadhyay, and Mamata’s ‘appeal’ in a public letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi asking that the order be withdrawn as the bureaucrat was needed in Bengal. Of course, that didn’t
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