Redefine powers to end Centre-state tussle

Tue, 01 June 2021

12:48

Alapan Bandopadhyay with his successor WB chief secy HK Dwivedi

The Centre-state battle witnessed in West Bengal, Tamil Nadu and Kerala, where Central agencies followed the BJP leadership during poll campaigns by undertaking searches and reopening old criminal cases, has confused the public, which is the worst sufferer by way of uncertain delivery of services during the pandemic.

Read the column by Vappala Balachandran, ex-Special Secretary, cabinet Secretariat.

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