As many as 13 IAS officers senior to Telangana Chief Secretary (CS) Somesh Kumar, are angry on being bypassed for the post. They are understood to have expressed their unwillingness to work under him. In fact they have conveyed their intention either for independent posts or deputation in the Central government. This situation might be embarrassing for the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) government led by Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao (KCR).
KCR appointed Somesh Kumar, a 1989 batch IAS officer of the Andhra Pradesh cadre as Chief Secretary of Telangana on 31 December, as the incumbent Chief Secretary Shailendra Kumar Joshi retired on the day. Somesh Kumar assumed office at 4.30 pm on Tuesday, without giving any scope of protest by his detractors (seniors) who were ignored for the post. Somesh was the Special Chief Secretary in the Revenue
The IAS officers senior to Somesh Kumar are: B.P. Acharya (1983 batch), Binoy Kumar (83), Ajay Mishra (84), Pushpa Subramaniam (85), Suresh Chanda (85), Chitra Ramachandran (85), Heeralal Samaria (85), Rajeshwar Tiwari (86), Rajiv Ranjan Mishra (87), Vasudha Mishra (87), Shalini Mishra (88), Adhar Sinha (88) and Shanti Kumari (89).
Sources in the government told that efforts would be made to persuade these unhappy officers to continue in their posts. If necessary, Chief Minister KCR, too, would meet them and assure them that Somesh Kumar’s appoint was in no way an insult to them.
