Days after Maharashtra government transferred 73 IAS officers in one go, the opposition NCP today alleged that the ruling BJP has started a "transfer business" to overcome the "recession within the party".
However, BJP rubbished the allegations as baseless stating the Sharad Pawar-led party "could have indulged in monetary considerations while transferring officials during its rule".
"In the last one year, some IAS officers have been transferred three to four times. This new business of transferring IAS officers has been started by BJP leaders to earn money and overcome the recession within the party," NCP spokesperson Nawab Malik said.
He alleged that the BJP-led state government is not following the rules prescribed for IAS officers' transfer.
"The Chief Minister needs to come clean on this mystery. Are these officers being transferred because they do not listen to ministers or because they are not willing to indulge themselves with the BJP ministers in their illegal acts," Malik said.
In a major bureaucratic reshuffle, the state government had on April 27 transferred 73 IAS officers.
The transfers were effected keeping in mind the demands of ministers, an official had said, adding the conflicts between some of them and the bureaucracy were affecting the work.
When contacted, BJP spokesperson Madhav Bhandari said, "There is no truth in the allegations. The NCP could have involved in such activities while transferring officers in their tenure. Rather, the transfers effected by our government are non-controversial.
