Bharati Ghosh is an IPS officer, who was the superintendent of police posted in Paschim Medinipur (West Midnapore) district of West Bengal. Known to be one of the closest aides to Mamata Banerjee, Ghosh had once termed the West Bengal chief minister as the mother of Junglemahal.
But Ghosh resigned last week after she was transferred from West Midnapore to the police training school in Barrackpore, near Kolkata.
Her transfer ruffled a few feathers in the state government as well as the political circle. Ghosh was very close to Mamata, but she had been brought to Mamata’s inner circle by the former Trinamool Congress' second-in-command, Mukul Roy.
Did Roy have any role in Ghosh’s resignation?
The political grapevine is that Ghosh is going to join BJP.
“Mamata Banerjee throws away anybody when his or her service is no longer needed,” Mukul Roy reacted after Ghosh’s exit.
Ghosh has had differences with Midnapore leader and West Bengal Transport Minister, Suvendu Adhikari.
Adhikari did not accept total control of the two Midnapore districts—West Midnapore and East Midnapore. Ghosh used to report to Mamata Banerjee on many political matters avoiding Adhikari. This irked the transport minister.
Recently, Mamata Banerjee got information that Ghosh had relayed a lot of information to Roy and Ghosh remained a loyalist to the latter even after his ouster from Trinamool Congress.
An angry Mamata slapped the transfer notice to Ghosh, a state cadre police officer who was promoted to IPS cadre in 2006. Ghosh's resignation was accepted by the chief minister yesterday. Her relieving order has been sent to Home Minister Rajnath Singh in Delhi.
Ghosh said she would hold a press conference later. “Just wait till that time. I will tell everything,” said she.
BJP has reacted positively to her resignation.
“This has shown how Mamata Banerjee deals with her officials. She uses them politically and then throws them away,” said state BJP president Dilip Ghosh.
Bharati Ghosh joined the West Bengal police service in 1994. Her service includes the UN mission in Kosovo and Bosnia. She was also close to the left leaders when the left government was in power.
After Maoist leader Kishenji's death and an operation to flush out Maoists from Lalgarh, Mamata put Ghosh in charge of the troubled zone.
