Madhya Pradesh: New CM cancels recent appointments by Congress govt

Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, who took oath on Monday, also transferred a few IAS officers, including Chief Secretary K Gopal Reddy. Senior bureaucrat Iqbal Singh Bais, who was chairman of Revenue Board, was made the new CS on Tuesday.

Rajgarh collector Nidhi Nivedita, who had hit headlines for allegedly slapping a BJP worker during an event to support the new citizenship law, was shifted to the secretariat as deputy secretary. The Congress government had shielded her after the row. The BJP had then alleged that the collector slapped the BJP activist for raising nationalist slogans.

Seeking Nivedita’s removal, the BJP had organised a protest in Rajgarh district after the incident. Chouhan had led the protest. Once the Congress government fell, it was clear that Nivedita would be transferred. Chouhan had also criticised the appointment of Reddy as the CS, calling him “tainted”.