Modi revamps state intelligence bureau

AHMEDABAD: An angry Chief Minister Narendra Modi, upset over the leakage of tapes of his provocative speeches and internal communication between the state intelligence bureau and the home department, revamped the whole set-up of the state intelligence bureau on Tuesday.Among those transferred were additional director-general of police (intelligence) R B Shreekumar, deputy inspector-general of police (intelligence) S Radhakrishnaiah and superintendent of police (intelligence) Sanjiv Bhatt.The chief minister was extremely upset over the report by Shreekumar to the additional chief secretary (home) Ashok Narayan warning him about Modi's inflammatory speeches during the gaurav yatra.More than the reports, the powers-that-be are said to have been upset over its leakage to the media, against which Modi had warned the IPS officers in a meeting held in June. He was quoted as saying in the audio-tapes, which were aired on television last Sunday, that he did not want to run relief camps for pregnant women and that the minorities followed the population policy of ''we five, ours 25''.While the speech was delivered by the Modi, during the course of his gaurav yatra at Bechraji on September 9, the National Commission for Minorities had written to the state government on September 10, asking for a transcription of the speech. But even as the state intelligence bureau sent the tapes to the home department, it also got leaked out to the media.Not only this, the letter by Shreekumar to the additional chief secretary (home) on September 12, in which he cautioned against Modi's inflammatory speeches, also found their way into the media. Modi, on his return to Gandhinagar late on Tuesday night, after the second leg of the yatra, which culminated at Dwarka, ordered that all the senior officers of the state intelligence bureau be transferred.