Jaipur, May 27: A minister who was close to Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot, vented his anger against the state bureaucracy, sought to step down. Through a tweet, Rajasthan Minister Ashok Chandna appealed Gehlot to relieve him from the ministerial post and to give all the departments to Kuldeep Ranka, the Principal Secretary to Gehlot.
Chandna is the Minister of Sports and Youth Affairs, Skill Development, Employment, Entrepreneurship, and Disaster Management and Relief in Rajasthan.
"Honourable Chief Minister, I have a personal request to you, that by freeing me from this cruel ministerial post, the charge of all my departments should be given to Kuldeep Ranka ji, because anyway he is the minister of all the departments. Thank you," Chandna tweeted.
The complaint by Chandna, who is the MLA from Bundi, comes days after Rajasthan tribal leader and MLA Ganesh Ghogra had a row with the state bureaucracy over land deed distribution. Ghogra, the state's Youth Congress chief who represents Dungarpur in the assembly, resigned on May 18 saying that despite being an MLA of the ruling party, he was being neglected.