“I have curbed corruption in the state with an iron fist”
“NO POST IS PERMANENT, BUT WHILE I AM IN THE CHAIR, MY FOCUS WILL BE ON DELIVERING TRANSPARENT, MEANINGFUL GOVERNANCE”
Q. The BJP stormed into power in Uttarakhand in 2017, winning 56 of 70 seats in the state assembly. As you complete three years in office, what would be your midterm analysis?
A. The mandate was against the previous regime’s corruption in matters related to land, mining, transfer postings, forests and liquor, among others. We brought in legislation to curb interventions in transfer postings in government jobs. The committee under the chief secretary considers pleas only in exceptional cases. We have effectively wiped out the forest, liquor and mining mafias in the state. We cracked down on 150 officials, including five PCS and two IAS officers.
Q. When you assumed office, you talked about bringing in a lokayukta (anti-corruptionombudsman)and said that chief ministers, too, would be under its ambit.
I never promised a . My philosophy is to curb corruption with an iron fist, so that there is
