Opposition is mounting from more states to the Center’s proposed changes in decides that give it general powers to settle on the posting of IAS officials even as the Government has fixed the standards further in an overhauled draft.
On Thursday, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee sent a second letter in eight days to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the issue, depicting the move as one that goes “against the… fundamental construction of India’s Constitutional plan”. The Maharashtra government, in the interim, chose in a Cabinet meeting to “emphatically go against” the changes.
Sources said somewhere around five states have sent letters to the Center restricting the proposed changes. Aside from West Bengal and Odisha, they incorporate BJP and NDA-managed Madhya Pradesh, Bihar and Meghalaya. “The current framework is great,” Bihar Chief Secretary Amir Subhani told The Indian Express.
Different states are yet to react despite the fact that sources in the Maharashtra government said it will send a letter to the Center contradicting the move. The cutoff time for states to react was reached out from January 5 to January 25.
In her most recent letter to Modi, Mamata Banerjee expressed: “The disputable issue of the further modified draft correction proposition is that an official, whom the Central Government might decide to remove from a State to any piece of the country without taking his/her assent and without the understanding of the State Government under whom he/she is serving, may now stand set free from his/her present task forthwith.”
Blaming the Center for “taking the make a difference to additional non-government limits”, she expressed: “I find the overhauled alteration proposition more draconian than the previous, and to be sure its very grain is against the reinforcements of our extraordinary bureaucratic nation and the essential construction of India’s Constitutional plan.”