A Former health secretary in the Congress-led Manmohan Singh government, K Sujatha Rao, has slammed the striking IAS civil servants in the Delhi government. The action by the civil servants has led to an unprecedented administrative crisis in Delhi as Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal continues to hold his sit-in protest against LG Anil Baijal at his office-cum-residence.
Rao, who retired as the Union Health Secretary in 2010, tweeted, “Unbelievable that IAS officers can go on “strike”. They have constitutional responsibilities. How can they be so irresponsible? And the LG just looks the other way? Quite a bad precedent and yet another blow to the so-called iron frame holding the country together.”
Unbelievable that IAS officers can go on “strike”. They have constitutional responsibilities. How can they be so irresponsible? And the LG just looks the other way? Quite a bad precedent and yet another blow to the so-called iron frame holding the country together.
— K Sujatha Rao (@sujakrao) June 17, 2018
Her statement has come as a setback to the claims made by the BJP that there was no strike by the civil servants in Delhi.