West Bengal: I report to CM, so acted on her instruction, ex-CS Alapan Bandyopadhyay tells MHA

Former state chief secretary Alapan Bandyopadhyay wrote to the Union home ministry on Thursday, denying he had “abstained” from PM Narendra Modi’s May 28 cyclone review meeting in Kalaikunda. Bandyopadhyay, now CM Mamata Banerjee’s chief adviser, has said he attended the meeting and then left at Banerjee’s instructions — to whom he “reports” — to conduct and coordinate post-cyclone review meetings in East Midnapore.