IAS officer transferred over Facebook post on Deendayal Upadhyay

October 09, 2016 12:02

The BJP government in Chhattisgarh transferred an IAS officer following his comments about the late Jan Sangh leader Deendayal Upadhyay on Facebook.

A senior official of the state government said that the officer, Shiv Anant Tayal, who was the CEO of Kanker Zilla Parishad, was transferred to the state Secretariat.

BJP is currently celebrating the birth centenary of Deendayal Upadhyay.

Tayal, a 2012 batch IAS officer, had posted a critical comment about Upadhyay's contribution on Facebook on Friday, after which, BJP leaders demanded action against him.

However, he had later expressed regret on the same networking site over his post.

"The government is going to issue him a show-cause notice regarding the Facebook post," the official said.

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