List of Chief Ministers who oppose the new IAS Cadre Rules increases, Mamta and Gehlot joins

The Central Government recently proposed new amendments in the IAS Cadre Policy. The Union Government has given itself power to appoint and transfer IAS and Indian Police Service (IPS) officers, overruling state governments. This has been opposed by umpteen Chief Ministers as they complain that this is an attack on the “Federal-Structure”, which is the very essence of the Indian Constitution.

Chief Ministers from different states across the nation including West Bengal's Mamata Banerjee, Rajasthan's Ashok Gehlot, Chhattisgarh's Bhupesh Baghel and Jharkhand's Hemant Soren have written to PM Modi to scrap it with immediate affect. However, the central government has defended its proposal, saying states are not sparing enough IAS officers for it, which is affecting the functioning of the central government.

Mr Stalin said, "The proposed amendments would cause irreparable damage to the spirit of cooperative federalism that exists between the union and the states and lead to concentration of powers in the union government." He also added that “If implemented, the All-India Service officers would be spending their career under perpetual fear of being penalised by the Union Government at any time. This would certainly demoralise and destabilise the steel frame of bureaucracy in India".