Ajay Singh Gangwar, who is a senior bureaucrat in Madhya Pradesh, has been transferred after he praised former Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru on Facebook. The post went viral on social media last week. It is said that the senior official has violated a basic rule which bureaucrats are not meant to share political affiliations.

Hence, ruling BJP penalised him for violating the code of conduct. “If in the name of freedom of speech, we will insult the system, that is wrong,” said Vishwas Sarang of the BJP. Hence, the opposition Congress claimed that the ruling BJP has itself proven its intolerance for praising a Congress stalwart and a freedom fighter.

Ajay Singh Gangwar was a Collector and a top bureaucrat in Barwani, Bhopal. He has been reassigned to a routine administrative post in the State secretariat. However, Gangwar deleted the post. The post was written in Hindi language and it reads:

“Let me know the mistakes that Nehru should not have committed. Is it his mistake that he prevented all of us from becoming Hindu Talibani Rashtra in 1947? Is it his mistake to open IIT, ISRO, BARC, IISB, IIM, BHEL steel plant, dams, and thermal power? Is it his mistake that he honoured Sarabhai, Homi Jehangir in place of intellectuals like Asaram and Ramdev?”

“It is condemnable that a statesman like Nehru is spoken of and the person is demoted. This creates fear,” said the party man Meem Afzal.