Summary:
Hyderabad, Jan 24 (PTI) Joining the chorus of dissent, Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao on Monday shot off a letter to the Centre expressing "strong protest" against the proposed amendments to the All India Services (Cadre) Rules 1954.
The proposal is clearly a move to exercise indirect control by the central government on officers working in the states and would also render state governments as helpless entities in matters of the AIS officers, Rao alleged in his letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
"On the face of it, the proposed amendments militate against the federal structure of our Constitution, both in letter and spirit.
Further the proposed amendments will also seriously erode the All India Service character of the IAS, IPS and IFS.
Telangana government, therefore, strongly opposes the proposed amendments," he said.
The move amounts to interfering in the functioning of the state governments, targeted harassment of officers and their demoralization, besides, impacting accountability of officials to the states , he further opined.