Shimla, May 26 -- Communist Party of India (Marxist) Himachal Pradesh today demanded immediate rollback of the state government's decision to appoint senior IAS officer Sanjay Gupta as regular Chief Secretary, alleging that the move was aimed at facilitating his service extension despite pending corruption-related allegations and court scrutiny.
In a statement issued here, CPI-M state secretary Sanjay Chauhan described the appointment as an attack on "institutional integrity, administrative morality and public trust," and claimed it exposed the hollowness of the government's "zero tolerance against corruption" policy.
The party alleged that serious corruption complaints, FIRs, criminal references and vigilance-related cases were pending a...