Misuse Of Power; IAS Couple Transferred; MP Mahua Moitra And Omar Abdullah Frowned Over Transfer Destination
May 27: The lightning fastness what the IAS couple, Rinku Dugga and her husband Sanjeev Khirwar, had shown in vacating Delhi’s Thyagaraj Stadium early in the night and walking their dog there, has turned a boomerang even faster beyond their imagination.
Hours after a media report over misuse of facilities at Delhi Tyagaraja Stadium by IAS Couple, the Home Ministry on Thursday took action against both of them. The ministry has transferred Sanjeev Khirwar and Rinku Dugga, both IAS officers of AGMUT cadre. Khirwar has been transferred from Delhi to Ladakh and Dugga to Arunachal Pradesh.
What made Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra and former CM Omar Abdullah piping hot and fumed. Moitra has called it disrespectful to Arunachal.
Why shame Arunachal by transferring errant Delhi bureaucrat there?
Why pay lip service to North East & then treat area like a dump for your rubbish, MHA?
Please protest @PemaKhanduBJP @KirenRijiju— Mahua Moitra (@MahuaMoitra) May 26, 2022
Moitra tagged Arunachal CM Pema Khandu and Union Minister Kiren Rijiju and asked them to oppose this decision of the Ministry of Home Affairs. The Lok Sabha MP said that the transfer of an autocratic bureaucrat from Delhi to Arunachal Pradesh is a matter of shame for the state.
Former Jammu and Kashmir CM Omar Abdullah tweeted:
Why are people calling Ladakh a “punishment posting”? For one it’s a beautiful place with very hospitable people & some stunning places to visit and secondly it’s demoralising for the people there to be given the impression that officers only get sent as a punishment.
— Omar Abdullah (@OmarAbdullah) May 26, 2022
The IAS couple was working together in Delhi till now, but now they will have to live about 3500 kms from each other. In the viral photo of Thyagaraj Stadium in Delhi, the coupe was seen walking in the stadium with their dog.
Athletes and coaches at the Thyagaraj Stadium in Delhi were upset for some time as they were being ordered to vacate the stadium so that the IAS officer’s dogs could walk there. When the blistering news surfaced in the media on Thursday, it went stormy, that the Delhi government also became strict.
The Delhi government issued an order saying that now every stadium in Delhi will be open for practice till 10 pm.
After this, IAS Khirwar had said, ‘I will never ask an athlete to leave the stadium. I go after the stadium is closed… we don’t leave him (the dog) on the track. If there is anything objectionable in it, I will stop it.
