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Shirahatti Tahsildar suspended

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C.M. Hiremath had said village stays are to get publicity

BANGALORE: The axe has fallen on Shirahatti Tahsildar C.M. Hiremath for making "unwarranted and controversial" remarks against Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy. The Chief Minister on Sunday directed Chief Secretary P B Mahishi to suspend the Tahsildar of Shirahatti in Gadag district.

The tahsildar incurred the wrath of the Chief Minister for his public remarks against the Chief Minister a couple of days ago. He had said that the Chief Minister's village stays, his censuring of officials and the warnings he frequently issues to them, is only to get publicity for himself as well as his party.

The tahsildar made these comments when several residents staged a protest against lack of proper drinking water supply. When the tahsildar came there, the protesters told him that the Chief Minister, who had stayed for a night in a village in their taluk only a couple of days ago, had said that "strict action would be taken against the lethargic officials who fail to ensure proper water supply."

Instead of attending to their problems, the tahsildar is supposed to have ridiculed the Chief Minister for issuing such a warning and had termed the village stays of the Chief Minister as "politically motivated". He had also ridiculed the Chief Minister's warning.

Interestingly, the tahsildar had ridiculed the warning of the Chief Minister in Shirahatti minutes after the Chief Minister issued a warning to bureaucrats while participating in Janata Darshan programme in Bangalore.

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