Centre recalls West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee's chief secretary to Delhi

The Centre shifted West Bengal chief secretary Alapan Bandyopadhyay on Friday to New Delhi and asked him to report at the North Block by 10am on Monday. The order, which seniors in the Bengal government said was “unexpected, unprecedented and reeking of vendetta politics”, came four days after the Centre had approved a three-month extension for the 1987-batch officer.