'Don't inflict suffering': Mamata writes to Modi on bureaucrat's transfer

Five quotes from the chief minister's letter addressing why she 'can't, won't' release civil servant.

West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to say that her government 'is not releasing’ Bengal chief secretary Alapan Bandyopadhyay to report to the Centre. 

Bengal chief secretary Bandyopadhyay was to report in Delhi today. The recall order of Bandyopadhyay came hours after CM Mamata Banerjee did not attend the cyclone review meeting with Prime Minister Modi on Friday, where her former aide and current BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari was also present.

Here are some select quotes from her letter:

• "The government of Bengal cannot release, and is not releasing, its