![Front government is the end of a coterie of power-greedy intellectuals who used to reign under the umbrella of ugly nepotism of the erstwhile chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee with the sanction from the mandarins of Muzaffar Ahmed Bhavan, the headquarters of state CPI(M) where a few autocrats such as the LF chairman Biman Bose behaved like the proverbial King Canute who thought that the oceanic waves were bound to behave under his diktat. The beneficiaries who had the ear of Buddhadeb-Biman [both polit bureau members of CPI(M) ] seemed to be saddled in their posts – superannuation having no effect there – until they breathed their last. Consider Sanat Chattopadhyay, secretary, Bangla Academy, who used to pull strings of the legendary Bangiya Sahitya Parishad through an unofficial body of readers of BSP. He was a head clerk in the police directorate and a senior functionary of CPII(M)-dominated Coordination Committee of West Bengal Government Employees' Associations and Unions, until 1977. Within a couple of months after the LF government was formed, Chattopadhyay – known as Anunay Chattopadhyay – was catapulted to the post of deputy director of information under the department of information and culture, whose minister-in-charge was Bhattacharjee. It was a post under the Public Service Commission, West Bengal. Hence the incumbent – appointed on an ad hoc basis had to pass through the PSC-WB scanner. He was twice rejected by the PSC. The ad hoc appointment was indicted by the Legal Remembrancer. Came to the rescue of most-favoured officer was Bhattacharjee who bypassed the PSC-WB and regularized the appointment through a cabinet resolution. Chattopadhyay did not have to look backwards. Quickly, he was promoted to the post of joint director and finally ex-officio director. After his retirement in the mid-1990s, he was favoured with the post of secretary, Bangla Academy, enjoying pay and allowance of the post he held last. For five years, he was there, enjoying 24-hour pool car facility and unlimited telephone expenses- reimbursement. When there was an objection from the audit, Chattopadhyay was barred from the hefty salary and allowance (but getting pension from the government) but stayed in that post. The pool car and telephone facility remained unchanged until the defeat of Bhattacharjee and LF government. Pradipta Sen was a WBCS officer, who rose to the rank of private secretary to the CM. He was a member of undivided CPI during the late 1950s. He passed the WBCS (Junior) examination and started his career as a BDO. After the LF had come to power, using his old party link, he became PS to the minister of education, Kanti Biswas. After retirement, using proximity to Bhattacharjee, he joined the West Bengal Medical University as controller of examinations, although he never taught at any college. He was to quit a few years back, when the minister of health and family welfare, Dr Surjyakanta Mishra, raised objection. Partha Raha got the job as a lecturer in philosophy at Netaji Nagar College, simply because it was a college, by, of and for CPI(M) people. For poorly qualified post-graduates who failed to make it to the government colleges through PSC made it to the NNC. In 1991, he became confidential secretary to Bhattacharjee when he was minister of I & CA, but his non-performance, he was to go back to NNC. After his retirement, Raha was made the chief of Film Centenary Archive, although he had no degree is museology. His knowledge about film is ridiculed by party-insiders but not the former CM. He too had to quit. Pabitra Sarkar masqueraded as a Ph.D. in linguistics from the University of Chicago to become reader, professor and head of department of Bengali at the Jadavpur University and then vice-chancellor, Rabindra Bharati University. After his retirement, it was known that he did not complete his Ph.D., A pet of Bhattacharjee who said on the floor of legislature,](http://profile.ak.fbcdn.net/hprofile-ak-snc4/211870_100000965829168_4299314_q.jpg) | Front government is the end of a coterie of power-greedy intellectuals who used to reign under the umbrella of ugly nepotism of the erstwhile chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee with the sanction from the mandarins of Muzaffar Ahmed Bhavan, the headquarters of state CPI(M) where a few autocrats such as the LF chairman Biman Bose behaved like the proverbial King Canute who thought that the oceanic waves were bound to behave under his diktat. The beneficiaries who had the ear of Buddhadeb-Biman [both polit bureau members of CPI(M) ] seemed to be saddled in their posts – superannuation having no effect there – until they breathed their last.
Consider Sanat Chattopadhyay, secretary, Bangla Academy, who used to pull strings of the legendary Bangiya Sahitya Parishad through an unofficial body of readers of BSP. He was a head clerk in the police directorate and a senior functionary of CPII(M)-dominated Coordination Committee of West Bengal Government Employees' Associations and Unions, until 1977. Within a couple of months after the LF government was formed, Chattopadhyay – known as Anunay Chattopadhyay – was catapulted to the post of deputy director of information under the department of information and culture, whose minister-in-charge was Bhattacharjee. It was a post under the Public Service Commission, West Bengal. Hence the incumbent – appointed on an ad hoc basis had to pass through the PSC-WB scanner. He was twice rejected by the PSC. The ad hoc appointment was indicted by the Legal Remembrancer. Came to the rescue of most-favoured officer was Bhattacharjee who bypassed the PSC-WB and regularized the appointment through a cabinet resolution.
Chattopadhyay did not have to look backwards. Quickly, he was promoted to the post of joint director and finally ex-officio director. After his retirement in the mid-1990s, he was favoured with the post of secretary, Bangla Academy, enjoying pay and allowance of the post he held last. For five years, he was there, enjoying 24-hour pool car facility and unlimited telephone expenses- reimbursement. When there was an objection from the audit, Chattopadhyay was barred from the hefty salary and allowance (but getting pension from the government) but stayed in that post. The pool car and telephone facility remained unchanged until the defeat of Bhattacharjee and LF government.
Pradipta Sen was a WBCS officer, who rose to the rank of private secretary to the CM. He was a member of undivided CPI during the late 1950s. He passed the WBCS (Junior) examination and started his career as a BDO. After the LF had come to power, using his old party link, he became PS to the minister of education, Kanti Biswas. After retirement, using proximity to Bhattacharjee, he joined the West Bengal Medical University as controller of examinations, although he never taught at any college. He was to quit a few years back, when the minister of health and family welfare, Dr Surjyakanta Mishra, raised objection.
Partha Raha got the job as a lecturer in philosophy at Netaji Nagar College, simply because it was a college, by, of and for CPI(M) people. For poorly qualified post-graduates who failed to make it to the government colleges through PSC made it to the NNC. In 1991, he became confidential secretary to Bhattacharjee when he was minister of I & CA, but his non-performance, he was to go back to NNC. After his retirement, Raha was made the chief of Film Centenary Archive, although he had no degree is museology. His knowledge about film is ridiculed by party-insiders but not the former CM. He too had to quit.
Pabitra Sarkar masqueraded as a Ph.D. in linguistics from the University of Chicago to become reader, professor and head of department of Bengali at the Jadavpur University and then vice-chancellor, Rabindra Bharati University. After his retirement, it was known that he did not complete his Ph.D., A pet of Bhattacharjee who said on the floor of legislature, " as far as I know, Pabitrababu is the best known scholar in linguistics' in Bengal (never caring to hear about internationally renowned scholars such as Prabal Dasgupta and Uday Narayan Sinha)", shielded Sarkar instead of initiating criminal litigation against him. He was in stead made the president of BSP and Bangla Academy.
These are just some of feats of nepotism under partyocracy under the LF regime. |
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