It looks like a section of media strongly supporting the Telugu Desam Party is making every effort to malign the YSR Congress party government by spreading a campaign that senior officials are getting frustrated with the style of functioning of chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy.
Taking advantage of the abrupt transfer of former chief secretary L V Subrahmanyam over his alleged clash with the chief minister’s office, this section of media has been campaigning that not just Subrahmanyam, but every senior IAS officer is not happy with Jagan because of his alleged adamant attitude.
The latest report doing rounds in this section of media is that present chief secretary Neelan Sawhney, too, is very frustrated with Jagan so much so that she is planning to return to the Central service or go on a long leave. She is left with just a few months of service.
According to these reports, Neelam reportedly commented before her close friends in the bureaucracy that she had been working under tremendous pressure and that she was spending sleepless nights under the present regime.
She reportedly complained that she was under pressure to issue orders, strictly according to the directions of the chief minister.
The reports said Neelam tried to caution the government that certain orders might face judicial scrutiny, but her cautions are being completely ignored.
“She is worried that she might have to face the imprisonment and penalty, if something goes wrong with these orders,” the reports said, adding that she feels it is better to go on long leave and retire peacefully, rather than facing a turbulent period in her last lap of service.
Nobody knows the truth in such reports, but they appear to have been written with a clear agenda to make people believe that Jagan is going against the rules and the bureaucrats are not happy with him!