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Badal’s love affair with Op Bluestar DC continues
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CHANDIGARH: Parkash Singh Badal’s love affair with the man who led Operation Bluestar from the front by agreeing to take over as Deputy Commissioner of Amritsar and facilitating the Indian Army’s attack on Akal Takht and Darbar Sahib is just not ending. Even as the Sikh Nation marks the 25th anniversary of Operation Bluestar, Badal’s gift to Punjab’s civil society on this occasion was the appointment of Ramesh Inder Singh as Chief Information Commissioner (CIC). R I Singh was appointed DC of Amritsar in June 1984 after two other successive Deputy Commissioners refused to sign orders to allow the army to attack the Golden Temple. RI Singh reportedly agreed

to the action in lieu of a promise that his cadre would be changed to Punjab, a promise that the Indian state fulfilled within hours. Shamelessly, CM Prakash Singh Badal repeatedly entrusted key offices to RI Singh, first making him his PS to CM and then Chief Secretary to Punjab. Now that RI Singh was to retire, Badal has found the perfect parking slot for him by making him the CIC. It is also a comment on Punjab’s and India’s civil society that such actions go unprotested. 

Meanwhile, Subodh Chander Aggarwal, a 1975 batch IAS officer, has assumed charge as Punjab’s new Chief Secretary.

1 July 2009
 

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