Arjun Ram Meghwal: Another IAS-turned politician finds berth in North Block

Arjun Ram Meghwal, an IAS-turned politician and BJP’s Member of Parliament from Bikaner in Rajasthan, was on Tuesday appointed as the minister of state for finance and corporate affairs in Narendra Modi government at the Centre. Earlier, former Bihar cadre IAS Yashwant Sinha and former Karnataka cadre IAS JD Seelam served as union finance minister and MoS, finance respectively under different governments. But the story of Meghwal is really inspirational: Born to a family of weavers from Kismidesar village in Bikaner, Meghwal continued his studies while helping his father in weaving. He did his…

JD Seelam: How an IAS officer’s high risk appetite makes him a Union Minister

COME August, IAS-turned Congress leader from Andhra Pradesh Jesudasu Seelam will turn 60. That means, had he continued in bureaucracy which he had left in 1999 to join active politics, Seelam would have retired in two months and gone into oblivion like most of his senior colleagues in bureaucracy. On Monday, this two-time Rajya Sabha MP…