{"id":11125,"date":"2020-12-18T10:54:17","date_gmt":"2020-12-18T05:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/34.22.110.190\/english\/?p=11125"},"modified":"2021-01-05T03:07:10","modified_gmt":"2021-01-04T21:37:10","slug":"arvind-kejriwal-backs-mamata-banerjee-condemns-centres-blatant-interference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/arvind-kejriwal-backs-mamata-banerjee-condemns-centres-blatant-interference\/","title":{"rendered":"Arvind Kejriwal backs Mamata Banerjee, condemns Centre\u2019s \u201cblatant interference\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal on Friday came out in support of West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee over the Centre\u2019s directive seeking the release of three IPS officers for Central deputation.<\/p>\n<p>Kejriwal took to Twitter to \u201ccondemn\u201d the Centre\u2019s \u201cblatant interference\u201d. He said that it is an attempt to destabilize the government and an assault on federalism. Kejriwal wrote: &#8220;I condemn the Centre\u2019s blatant interference in the Bengal administration. Encroaching on the rights of states by attempting to transfer police officers to Centre just before elections, is an assault on federalism and an attempt to destabilize.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He retweeted <a href=\"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/transfer-of-3-ips-officers-mamata-banerjee-says-she-wont-be-cowed-down-wont-allow-centre-to-control-state-machinery\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\">Banerjee\u2019s post of yesterday in which she wrote<\/span><\/a> that the Centre seeking the transfer of three IPS officers was a \u201cblatant misuse of emergency provision of IPS Cadre Rule 1954. This act is nothing but a deliberate attempt to encroach upon State\u2019s jurisdiction &amp; demoralize the serving officers in WB.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She also wrote that the move \u201cparticularly before the elections\u201d was against the basic tenets of the federal structure adding that it is \u201cunconstitutional\u201d. The Bengal CM added that \u201cWe wouldn\u2019t allow this brazen attempt by the Centre to control the State machinery by proxy! West Bengal is not going to cow-down in front of expansionist &amp; undemocratic forces.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An attempt to destabilize, said Kejriwal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":279,"featured_media":11126,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,11,9],"tags":[61,62,387,57,375,552,49,416,46,301,428],"tmauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-11125","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-bengal","8":"category-editors-choice","9":"category-nation","10":"tag-aam-admi-party","11":"tag-arvind-kejriwal","12":"tag-assembly-elections-2021","13":"tag-bjp","14":"tag-centre-state-relations","15":"tag-delhi-government","16":"tag-mamata-banerjee","17":"tag-opposition-parties-in-india","18":"tag-trinamool-congress","19":"tag-west-bengal-government","20":"tag-west-bengal-police"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/279"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11125\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11125"},{"taxonomy":"tmauthors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tmauthors?post=11125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}