State govt not accountable to Union home minister: TMC
Kolkata: 13.12.2020
Senior Trinamool Congress (TMC) lawmaker Kalyan Banerjee wrote to Union home secretary Ajay Bhalla on Saturday, saying that West Bengal’s chief secretary and director-general of police (DGP) were summoned to Delhi over the attack on BJP chief JP Nadda’s convoy with “political motive”, asserting that law and order is a state subject.
Banerjee, chief whip of TMC in the Lok Sabha, alleged that the Centre was resorting to coercive means to intimidate the state administration, and the top officials were summoned at the instance of the Union home minister.
BJP national general secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya, however, said that everyone saw how Nadda’s convoy was attacked by alleged TMC workers on December 10 and Banerjee’s letter to Bhalla has “little merit”.
“We want to inform you that law and order is within the domain of the state under 7th Schedule of the State list.... How in respect of the law and order situation you can call both the officers for any sorts of discussion?” the MP wrote. He said that in respect of law and order, the state government is accountable to the legislative assembly “but not to you or to your home minister”. PTI
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