TMC to make IAS Rules issue in Budget session

Kolkata: The Trinamool Congress is going to raise a host of ‘contentious issues’ in parliament in the upcoming Budget Session, inside sources said quoting Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.

The Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has directed her MPs to raise the issue of proposed amendment of Indian Administrative Services (cadres) rules in Parliament, the party sources on Thursday said.

The Trinamool Congress is going to raise a host of ‘contentious issues’ in parliament in the upcoming Budget Session, inside sources said quoting Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.The Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has directed her MPs to raise the issue of proposed amendment of Indian Administrative Services (cadres) rules in Parliament, the party sources on Thursday said.

Banerjee who on Thursday had called a meeting of TMC MPs ahead of the Budget Session is known to have chalked out a battle plan for her MPs guiding them on how to raise various issues including “the most contentious” issue related to the mandatory deputation of IAS officers in Delhi.

Apart from the IAS issue the TMC is also likely to raise other issues regarding “some Bills sent by the State and have been lying pending with the Centre,” sources said.

Besides, the party is also likely to move a resolution in Rajya Sabha seeking withdrawal of Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar who has not been in good terms with the Chief Minister. The two sides have been at loggerheads ever since the Governor assumed office in 2019.

The Chief Minister is personally likely to take up the issue and start a movement demanding the Governor’s removal from Bengal, sources said.

With the Governor often raising issues like increasing violence, lack of model political culture, alleged politicization of bureaucracy and disregard for the gubernatorial chair the Bengal ruling outfit haveoften accused Dhankhar of converting the Raj Bhavan into a BJP party office.