There are Chief Ministers all over history who have always yielded to the pressure of the Bureaucrats. But Telangana Chief Minister Revanth Reddy is proving to be different.
We have seen him frequently rapping the Government officials, demanding they be accountable.
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On Monday, during a public meeting in Macharam village of Amrabad mandal in Nagarkurnool district, A Sharath, the Principal Secretary of the Tribal Welfare Department, tried to touch the Chief Minister’s feet.
Revanth Reddy immediately stopped the IAS officer and reprimanded him on the spot.
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The other day, Chief Secretary K Ramakrishna Rao issued a memo cautioning IAS officers against engaging in public acts or gestures that could damage their reputation or be derogatory to the prestige of the government.
In the memo, he cited Rule 3 of the Telangana Civil Services (Conduct) Rules, 1964, that defines the decorum that should be maintained by the officials.
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It is important that Revanth Reddy discourage such sycophancy.
Officials if try to display devotion to the Rulers in the Public, they perceive to be dangerous.
They are nothing but seeking to be the good books in the Chief Minister and will go on a rampage in their official duties. Such a scenario is not good for the Government as well as the Public.
In 2021, the then Siddipet District Collector P Venkatarami Reddy touched the feet of KCR during the inauguration of the newly built district collectorate in Duddeda.
KCR blessed him with Akshintalu and later admitted him into the BRS and made him an MLC by the party.
Such gestures will paint a very poor picture of the Civil Servants as well as the Government.
KCR was high on power to understand what people thought. As a result, he was also away from reality, and the officials did not give him the right feedback.
But Revanth Reddy did not commit the same mistake.
Government and Bureaucracy should work like Parallel lines that never collide.
If they collide, we have seen how scores of Bureaucrats who went to jail and who are currently in jail because of Jagan Mohan Reddy in Andhra Pradesh in his earlier disproportionate assets cases and the current scams.
