Major Bureaucratic Reshuffle! Punjab issues transfer orders to 24 IPS, 12 PCS officers amid ongoing political turmoil

Chandigarh, October 4: Amid the ongoing political turmoil in Punjab, the state government issued transfer orders to 24 IPS and 12 PCS officers on Monday. Initiating a major bureaucratic reshuffle, the Principal Secretary in Finance KAP Sinha was given an additional charge of Principal Secretary in Power and New and Renewable Energy Sources. Apart from this Secretary of School Education Krishnan Kumar has been given the position of Higher Education and Languages.

 

Not only this, other reshuffle includes Secretary for Revenue and Rehabilitation, Babita will now be the new Deputy Commissioner of Fazilka district replacing Arvind Pal Singh Sadhu. In the interim, Arvind Pal Singh Sandhu will be replacing B Srinivasan as the Deputy Commissioner of Bathinda. Posting orders of Veerendra Kumar Meena, Pradeep Kumar Agrawal, B Srinivasan, Varinder Pal Singh Bajwa, Jasbir Singh, and Anil Gupta will be issued later. The order has been undersigned by the Chief Secretary to the Government of Punjab Anirudh Tewari.

Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi has been encountering dissent within the Congress party, just a week after he began his tenure as the new CM. The opposition within Congress in Punjab started as Navjot Singh Sidhu stepped down as the Punjab Congress President on September 28. The disagreement continued as Sidhu refused to back out on his demand to sack Punjab Advocate General Amar Preet Singh Deol and DGP Iqbal Preet Singh Sahota.

Expressing his dissent on Twitter, Sidhu stated that Congress has come to power in 2017 owing to public outcry on justice in the sacrilege cases and the drug trade. Asserting that Captain Amarinder Singh was removed as the CM owing to his failure to take action on this front, he said that the appointments of the AG and DGP were akin to rubbing salt on the wounds of the victims.

Meanwhile, Navjot Singh Sidhu has owed to stand by the leadership of Wayanad MP Rahul Gandhi and Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra irrespective of whether he is an office-bearer of the party.