CM should put an end to ‘transfer business’: Lehar Singh Siroya

Bengaluru: Ruling BJP MLC Lehar Singh Siroya on Friday urged the state government to immediately delink bureaucratic transfers from politics to bring the administration, which had collapsed during the tenure of the previous coalition government, back on track.

Reacting to a report (in Deccan Chronicle on Friday) on the transfer of IAS officer Munish Moudgil, Mr Siroya said CM B.S. Yediyurappa had provided decisive leadership while tackling  critical issues in the past and he could do the same on this issue too. “The Congress and the previous coalition governments had set a bad precedent vis-a-vis bureaucratic transfers and this should not continue now,” he said.

According to him, corrupt bureaucrats lobby with their political masters to grab plum posts. Two, in many cases, these corrupt bureaucrats attempt to prevent honest officers who have vision and zeal, from taking up good posts.

“As a result, the bureaucracy in general is not motivated and feels disenchanted. In the short term, political masters may enjoy the confidence of the corrupt but in the long run when a particular dispensation fails to deliver programmes, it will have to bear the burden of anti-incumbency,” he warned.

“When Modi was Gujarat CM, he had checked this transfer business. I think our CM sho uld take  a leaf from Mr Modi's book and delink transfers from politics which will earn him a good name,” he added.