The Kerala federal government has eliminated M. Sivasankar from the post of Principal Secretary to Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan. Nevertheless, the IAS officer will continue to head the IT department for now.
Mr. Sivasankar had, arguably, come under a cloud after the Opposition tried to associate him and, by extension, the CM’s workplace, with gold smuggling case suspect Swapna Suresh.
” I have actually made an application for leave for a year,” the bureaucrat told The Hindu
Congress and Bharatiya Janata Celebration (BJP) celebration workers tried to whip up anti-government belief after videos and photos of Ms. Suresh with leading ruling front political leaders, senior bureaucrats and ranking authorities emerged on the social networks. They arranged street protests across Kerala and torched the effigies of Mr. Vijayan and Ms. Suresh in a mark of demonstration.
The Customs Department had called Ms. Suresh as a “suspect and person of interest” in the case associating with the seizure of 35 kg of contraband gold from an air delivery dealt with to the United A