Maharashtra's 'Mayaram effect'

Arvind Mayaram's ignominious exit from the finance secretary's post just before the results of the Assembly elections were declared has the bureaucracy in Maharashtra worried. Who will suffer Mayaram's fate now that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is set to form the government in Mantralaya next week, they ask. Those who worked with the Congress-Nationalist Congress Party government during its 15-year rule in key departments are obvious targets for the axe. On the other hand, a few bureaucrats who worked during the BJP-Shiv Sena government of the mid-nineties are anticipating achche din for themselves.