‘Public funds used for publicity’: Suspended IAS officer lashes out at Kerala govt
B Ashok launches sharp attack on LDF government, alleging a bureaucratic ‘caucus’ led by KIIFB CEO K M Abraham; says he won’t challenge the order
Riding a powerful anti-incumbency wave, the alliance dismantled several CPI(M) bastions, reducing the ruling Left Democratic Front (LDF), which was seeking an unprecedented third-consecutive term under Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, to just 35 seats. (File) A day after being suspended for criticising the LDF government, senior IAS officer Dr B Ashok on Thursday mounted a scathing attack on the dispensation.
The 1998-batch officer is VC of Kerala Agricultural University and principal secretary in the Sainik Welfare Department. In recent weeks, Ashok, who has had several run-ins with the CPI(M) government, went to the media with his criticism. This came just ahead of the poll season.
Unfazed by his suspension, Ashok told the media: “This is the suspension order of a government which was dismissed by the people on April 9. The order will remain on the table. I am not going to challenge the suspension in the central administrative tribunal”.
Targeting Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan’s principal chief secretary Dr K M Abraham, a former state chief secretary, Ashok said, “Kerala IAS used to work in a most impartial way. But I’m sorry to say that a caucus of bureaucrats under the leadership of the CEO of the Kerala Infrastructure Investment Fund Board (Abraham) has been operating for the last six months to ensure a third regime of the present government
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