Daijiworld Media Network - Bengaluru (SP)

Bengaluru, Dec 24: Chief minister B S Yediyurappa, is seriously thinking of shuffling senior officers placed in strategic positions before the cabinet expansion. He wants to give the administration full thrust so that the government is able to perform as pear the aspirations of the people.

He has reportedly been holding consultations with regard to replacing certain principal secretaries, additional chief secretaries etc with his close ones. Still, he is learnt not to have a taken a final decision yet.

There were widespread criticism for his move to transfer officials on a large scale immediately after the BJP government assumed office. The issue had even reached the national leadership of the party. Therefore, reliable sources say, Yediyurappa might take up the issue of transfer with the party high command during his visit to Delhi to finalise ministry expansion.

Newly elected legislators need to be accommodated in the ministry. Some BJP leaders also might become ministers. Therefore, Yediyurappa plans to post efficient officers to places of importance before the new minsters are sworn in. He feels that transfer of important officials after the ministry expansion might emit wrong signals.

Yediyurappa had conducted a meeting of secretaries, principal secretaries and additional chief secretaries of all the departments in which a round of talk about the need to speed up government functioning was done. He had planned to hold another meeting with deputy commissioners and zilla panchayat executive officers of all districts in the next round but because of CAA and NRC protests, he could not hold this meeting, sources said.