CM transfers 37 IAS officers

Gorakhpur DM who had stopped media on counting day shifted

In what can be termed as a fallout of the BJP’s defeat in recent byelections, UP chief minister Yogi Adityanath has transferred 37 IAS officers and 43 IPS officers.

The transferred IAS officers included controversial Bareilly district magistrate Raghevndra Vikram Singh who sparked a row with his Facebook posts on the Kasganj riots last month. The transferred IPS officers include police chiefs of 22 districts like Noida, Kannauj, Ghaziabad, Pratapgarh, Gorakhpur, Jhansi, Mathura, Deoria, Shamli, Kushinagar and Barabanki.

In what can be termed as fallout of the BJP’s defeat in recent by- elections, UP chief minister Yogi Adityanath has transferred 37 IAS officers, including the controversial district magistrate of Gorakhpur.

The district magistrate of Gorakhpur, Rajiv Rautela, was in the eye of storm on the day of counting of votes when he barred the entry of the media into the counting arena.

Mr Rautela has now been shifted as commissioner of Devi Patan division which is a promotion according to his seniority while Mr Vijayendra Pandian is set to hold the position of the new district magistrate at Gorakhpur.

Apart from Mr Rautela, the district magistrates of 15 other districts have also been shifted.

The districts include Gorakhpur, Maharajganj, Bareilly, Pilibhit, Sitapur, Ballia, Hathras, Sonebhadra, Chandauli, Amroha, Hapur, Balrampur, Bhadohi, Chitrakoot, Azamgarh, and Aligarh.

The district magistrate of Bareilly Raghevndra Vikram Singh is among those transferred. Mr Singh was in the thick of a controversy over his Facebook posts on the Kasganj riots last month.

He had been served a show cause notice on the issue. He is now posted as special secretary in the office of agricultural production commissioner ( APC) .