Haryana CPI(M) criticises state govt for transfer of CMO

The Haryana unit of CPI(M) today took strong objection to the transfer of the Kurukshetra Chief Medical Officer by Haryana Government after the woman doctor accused a state minister of using "harsh words" against her during a telephonic conversation.
"A minister of state used threatening and undignified language during a phone call. Such ill treatment meted out to a women officer does not behove for a person of ministerial status," CPI(M) state secretary Inderjit Singh said in a statement here.
Singh disapproved the act of Haryana government for removing the doctor from her post. "This amounts to further victimising the victim for no fault of her," he said.

"Such highly objectionable display of the government establishment has sent a wrong signal to the officers and employees in general and women officers in particular," he said and demanded strict legal action against the defaulting minister.
Kurukshetra Chief Medical Officer (CMO) Vandana Bhatia was yesterday transferred from the post.
A controversy had erupted over a purported telephonic conversation between minister of State for Women and Child Welfare Krishan Kumar Bedi and her.
She had alleged that the minister used "harsh words" against her.
Bhatia, with around 30 years of government service, had allegedly recorded and circulated in CD the three-and-a-half minutes' talk with the minister where the latter is heard purportedly asking "whether she is a doctor or a person who reared animals...