Politics in time of pandemic: Gehlot smells a rat after EC defers RS polls

The Congress is worried that some of its legislators in Gujarat might vote for the BJP candidates

10 days, 3 chief secys

Madhya Pradesh has got its third chief secretary in 10 days. In one of the initial orders of the new dispensation, Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Tuesday appointed IAS officer Iqbal Singh Bains as the new chief secretary. Bains, a 1985 batch IAS officer, is considered close to Chouhan. Just days before, on March 16, the earlier Kamal Nath government had appointed senior IAS officer M Gopal Reddy (also 1985 batch) the new chief secretary of the state. Reddy replaced S R Mohanty (1982 batch), who is now the director general of RCVP Noronha Academy