Look who’s running transfer industry now: Congress to BJP

BHOPAL: Former minister and state Congress media cell chief Jeetu Patwari on Friday alleged that the Shivraj Singh Chouhan government, in its 324-day regime, has issued transfer orders of 3,000 officials.
Patwari recalled that since April 2019, it was Chouhan, who repeatedly alleged that former chief minister Kamal Nath was running a “transfer industry”.
“The number of transfers ordered in Chouhan’s less than one-year ongoing term is double that of Kamal Nath’s one-and-half year regime,” said Jeetu Patwari, speaking to reporters at state PCC office.
“Shivraj Singh Chouhan and the BJP then alleged that Congress government was running a transfer industry and the state secretariat had become a place for middlemen. Now, what is the BJP’s explanation about double the number of transfers in less than a year?” asked Jeetu Patwari, who was armed with statistics and copies of transfer orders.
Congress claimed that 10,000 more transfer orders are in the line as recommended and endorsed by the RSS. And by April this year, the total number of transfers of government employees and officials will be 50,000.
“Last year, the BJP formed government on March 23. The next day, government issued orders for transfer of Rajgarh collector Nidhi Nivedita,” said Patwari. Nivedita had slapped a BJP worker, who allegedly misbehaved with her and another woman official, while taking out a pro-CAA rally.
“Iqbal Singh Bains was appointed new chief secretary and four orders were taken out to transfer officials,” the former minister said.
Giving an account of transfers in the past 21 days, Jeetu Patwari said, “On January 18, state government transferred three officials: Brijesh Saxena, Tripti Shrivastava and Vijay Raj. On January 20, another 8 officers were transferred. January 22 saw transfer orders of seven more officers.”
Patwari read out a list of nine officials, who were transferred on January 24 and six more transferred on January 26.
Fifty-six sub-inspectors were also transferred the same day.
Countering the Congress party’s claim, state BJP spokesman Rajneesh Agarwal said, “When chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan and the BJP alleged that Kamal Nath government was running a transfer industry, it was not just a bling accusation. It was proved in the I-T raids conducted on Kamal Nath’s close aids and crores of unaccounted for money was recovered. They transferred one official four times. Does the Congress have even a shred of evidence that the transfers in the Chouhan government are in exchange for cash? Chief minister Chouhan’s transfers are in the interest of governance delivery and development. What is the harm there?”