In a strongly worded letter to Secretariat Administration Department (SAD), Khan said,"No disciplinary action has been taken against two personal secretaries and five additional personal secretaries who had charged me of humiliating them and deserted my office."
Terming the act of his "rebel" personal staff as part of some "big conspiracy" to harm his political career, Khan said that the charges levelled by them (staff) and the act amounted to the humiliation of all the ministers and they ought to have been given immediate punishment to check others from indulging in irresponsible behaviour.
In October last year, seven assistants of Khan-- JS Negi and Vijay Bahadur Singh (both personal secretaries) and Sarvesh Mishra, Muktinath Jha, Awadhesh Kumar Tiwari, Naim Siddiqui and Santosh Prajapati (additional private secretaries)-- had alleged they were unable to work under the minister since "he regularly abused them".
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