IAS officer Ajay Singh Gangwar has been issued a show cause notice by the Madhya Pradesh government for allegedly advocating ‘jankranti’ (people’s revolution) against Prime Minister Narendra Modi through a Facebook post. He had earlier been transferred over his Facebook post in support of Jawaharlal Nehru.
The state government slapped the notice on Gangwar on Tuesday through an e-mail for allegedly ‘liking’ a post against the Prime Minister in January and commenting, “Modi ke khilaf jankranti honi chaia (sic)” (There should be a people’s revolution against Modi).
Gangwar, 55, who was transferred as deputy secretary, contested the charge, stating he had neither posted nor ‘liked’ anything against Modi on his Facebook account on 23 January.
If I had posted or ‘liked’ anything on Facebook on 23 January, why so much time was taken to serve show cause notice to me. I have been asked to reply to the show cause notice in a week. I am going to ask in my reply that my timeline on Facebook doesn’t have any post or ‘like’ against Modi.Ajay Singh Gangwar
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