Goa CM: PC not my boss

May 30, 2012 |

Age Correspondent

Panaji/NEW DELHI

Goa chief minister Manohar Parrikar and home minister P. Chidambaram have entered into a tussle over the appointments of IPS officers, with the chief minister of the BJP-ruled state accusing the home ministry of “unilaterally appointing IPS officers in the state without taking the state government into confidence”.
The BJP government in Goa has even started refusing to accept the appointments of IPS officers in the state made by the Union home ministry. Mr Parrikar has demanded an apology from the home ministry for its “unilateral” decisions.
“The home minister never consults me, so I have rejected all his orders. We are moving for a Goa cadre of IPS officers,” Mr Parrikar said in Goa.
Holding the Union home minister responsible for the mess over IPS appointments, Mr Parrikar said, “Chidambaram is not my boss. We are equal.”
“The Union home ministry should apologise to me because they have started unilaterally appointing IPS officers in Goa,” he said. While the home ministry refused to join issue, top home ministry sources said that if states do not cooperate in timely relieving and joining of officers in their cadre , then cadre-management by the MHA becomes difficult. Currently, Goa is under Arunachal Pradesh, Goa, Mizoram and Union Territories cadre. It all began with Mr Parrikar first writing a letter to Mr Chidambaram on May 22, refusing to relieve IPS officer R.S. Yadav who was functioning as DIG in the state.

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