After the defeat of the Trinamool Congress (TMC) in the 2026 West Bengal Assembly elections, Alapan Bandyopadhyay,resigned from his position as chief advisor to the outgoing Chief Minister.
Alapan Bandyopadhyay is a 1987-batch IAS officer who, in 2021, was at the center of a major clash between Mamata Banerjee and Prime Minister Narendra Modi over his deputation to the central government.On May 6, 2026, after the BJP’s victory in the 2026 West Bengal elections, Bandyopadhyay and another advisor, H.K. Dwivedi, resigned from their…

