Characters and stories of politics-7: Mayawati had changed 305 officers in 30 days, one was transferred 5 times in 6 days

On 11 May 2022, the Yogi government transferred 1987 batch IPS DGP Mukul Goyal as the DG of Civil Security. The reason given was that Mukul was not taking interest in departmental work. This is not the first case in UP. In the earlier SP and BSP governments also, transfers were made by giving such reasons. In this series of political characters and anecdotes, today we will tell the story of the transfers during the Mayawati regime. When one officer each was transferred 5 times in 6 days. Come on, before reading the news further, you can give your opinion by joining the poll.

The identity of a strict administrator was
Mayawati’s identity among the public has been that of an administrator with a tough image. She used to rely on transfer before hearing the complaint. Mayawati writes about better law and order and zero corruption behind the transfer of officers in her autobiography ‘Mere Sangharshmay Jeevan Ka Safarnama’. But Ajay Bose, who wrote his biography, writes differently from him in the book Behenji. First, let’s talk about the transfer done.

Changed the place of 305 IAS officers in 1 month
Mayawati was the Chief Minister four times. For the first time from June 1995 to October 1995. The second time from March 1997 to September 1997. The third time was from May 2002 to August 2003 and the fourth time from May 2007 to March 2012. We will talk about his first three terms. When she was in power for a very short time but took decisions very fast.

On 10 June 2002, Outlook magazine published a report on the transfers. Told that when she became the Chief Minister in 1995, she transferred 386 officers in a span of 4 months. In 1997, he became CM for 6 months, then transferred 470 senior officers. In 2002, when she became the Chief Minister for the third time, within 30 days, 305 officers were transferred. It had 85 IAS officers and 50 IPS officers.

When she became the Chief Minister in 2002, 305 officers were transferred within 30 days.

Transferred an officer five times in 6 days
NR Srivastava was the Deputy Inspector General of Police in the Anti-Corruption Department. Mayawati transferred him to the post of DIG of Intelligence Department. Not even a day passed, he was ordered to take up the post of DIG in the Railway Police. While he was sitting on the seat, he was immediately ordered to sit at the DIG post of Chitrakoot. They had not even reached the city yet that the news was received, you should come back again to the post of DIG of Railway Police. Changed five times in six days.

Sent Ramkumar Ram to four places in 6 days
In 2002, the Inspector General of Police was Ramlal Ram. He was sent to Gorakhpur on the post of IG Provincial Armed Constabulary of PAC. He reached Gorakhpur. Even before taking the post, news came that he has been sent to the post of IG of Power Corporation. When he reached Lucknow to take the post, he came to know that he had just been transferred to the post of IG Lucknow. Transferred 4 times in six days.

Ramkumar accused of corruption, yet given four ministries
Ramkumar had serious allegations of corruption. The BJP government had forced him to retire, but after going to court, he got it stopped. When Mayawati became the CM, Ramkumar was made the chief secretary of women’s welfare, minor irrigation, child development and rural engineering service. After this, he was given additional responsibility of the Department of Elementary Education, whose budget was 1500 crores.

Allegations of nepotism in transfer-posting
In Mayawati’s biography ‘Behenji’, Ajay Bose writes, during Mayawati’s tenure as Chief Minister, allegations of intimate friendship, nepotism and caste-partisanship were leveled against her. Mayawati grabbed the neck of the administration and acted arbitrarily with it. Seniority often sidelined.

Ajay Bose says Mayawati held the administration’s neck and acted arbitrarily with it.

In the chapter ‘Steeladi Mahila v. Transferred Rani’, Bose writes, “Mayawati was contemplating a new change in the rules for government jobs. The changes required confidential records of district magistrates and police superintendents, as was the usual practice for those Instead of the officers under whom they were working, the local BSP leaders could write.”

Discussion of loyalty rather than competence and honesty
Ajay Bose says, “Mayawati admired officers for their simplicity and insecurities rather than their loyalty and competence. She would invite an upper caste officer who saved her life in the guest house scandal to her private room so that she could Ask for something but that officer could not ask for anything. In the end, he was made to sit on a profitable post in Lucknow itself.” We have deliberately hidden his name.

Not only Mayawati but other CMs also used to sit on the transfer button.
In July 1995, India Today magazine brought out a report on the transfer of officers. It contained the data of transfers made before Mayawati in Mulayam Singh and Kalyan Singh government. Between December 1989 and June 1991, Mulayam Singh transferred 419 IAS and 228 IPS officers.

Kalyan Singh transferred 460 IAS and 319 IPS officers between June 1991 and December 1992. After this, when Mulayam Singh formed the government again, he transferred 321 IAS and 493 IPS officers.

Mulayam Singh used to insist on transfer of IPS and Kalyan Singh IAS officers.

In the end, all I have to say is that the Chief Ministers have always kept the officers of their choice around them. An example of this is related to Mayawati. When Mayawati became CM for the fourth time in 2002, she removed Chief Secretary Ajay Prakash Verma because she had to appoint Kanshi Ram’s beloved DS Bagga.