Kolkata, Aug 6 (TIWN) After Partha Chatterjee was stripped of all his ministerial and party portfolios, the bureaucrats, considered as close confidants of the former West Bengal Minister, has started feeling the administrative heat.

Two of these bureaucrats have been sent on compulsory waiting for an indefinite period by the state personnel and administrative reforms department, which is under the direct control of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.  The most among the two is Sukanta Acharya, a West Bengal Civil Service (Executive Office), who had been the personal assistant to Chatterjee during his tenure as the state education minister, as well as when he was the commerce & industries minister.  In the 2016 West Bengal Assembly election, Acharya was also the returning officer for Behala (West) constituency, where Chatterjee had been the five-time Trinamool Congress legislator since 2001.  The second bureaucrat to be slapped with a similar compulsory waiting order for an indefinite period is Probir Bandopadhyay, the officer-on-special duty to the state Parliamentary Affairs Department, which was under Chatterjee's control since 2011 when Trinamool came to power in West Bengal for the first time ousting the 34-year-long Left Front rule.