Employees have urged CM Yogi Adityanath to take over the department from Sharma, saying the minister had reneged on agreements with them and was pushing privatisation.
Sharma worked closely with Modi as an IAS till he joined BJP. Now, a minister in Yogi govt, with power & urban development portfolios, he has been facing flak over several incidents.
IAS officer who served as coal secretary says Sharma’s ‘persuasive skills were such that even principal secretary to PM started pushing me (Swarup) to decide in favour of the industrialist’.
AK Sharma's appointment comes months ahead of the 2022 Uttar Pradesh assembly elections.There had been speculation that Sharma would be made a minister in UP.
Arvind Kumar Sharma, a Gujarat cadre IAS officer, had joined Modi CMO in 2001, before moving with him to the PMO in 2014, where he served in key positions.
The rules now take effect on 1 July instead of 1 April, the Reserve Bank of India said. New rules may raise cost of raising capital for proprietary trading firms & squeeze profits.
Oleksandr Yakovenko, founder of Ukrainian drone maker TAF Industries, further went on to highlight the growing 'irrelevance' of European defence platforms.
It’s easy to understand why the government can’t speak the hard truth. When this war ends, as all wars do, India’s interests will lie with both the winner and the loser.
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