“Holding a lower rank post is humiliating”; No Achche Din for Haryana IAS Ashok Khemka

1991 BATCH Haryana cadre IAS Ashok Khemka who hit the headlines in 2012 for canceling the mutation of a multi-crore land deal between Congress president Sonia Gandhi's son-in-law Robert Vadra and realty company DLF, says he is currently holding a low rank post which is “humiliating”. His statement which he had posted in Twitter on Wednesday assumes significance as Vadra figured in BJP’s elections campaign both in the run-up to the Lok Sabha poll and Haryana assembly elections, and Khemka — the bureaucrat who ordered probe in Vadra’s land deal, thereby indirectly (not intentionally) helping the BJP to dislodge the incumbent Congress government, became a big star among the BJP supporters and common people. Now, there is a BJP government in Haryana, but Khemka’s Achche Din is yet to arrive. Khemka said:

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TILL a few days ago, 47-year-old Haryana IAS Ashok Khemka was one of the hundred faceless bureaucrats who make a little effort to bring about changes in the society but end up getting transferred. This 1991 batch IAS officer was transferred about 40 times in last 21 years. On Tuesday evening, social networking sites are abuzz with messages in support of Khemka who raised the issue of Panchayat land worth crores of rupees being transferred to newly-formed companies with paid-up capital of as little as Rs1 lakh. Khemka has challenged his transfer order though...