A day after the bureaucrats gave a miss to the meeting called by him, Agriculture Minister Somireddy Chandramohan Reddy said, “It is nothing but constitutional breakdown in the State. Though no rules or guidelines prevent the officials from attending the meeting, they did not turn up. The bureaucrats were afraid to attend the review meetings as the CS issued memos to the officials who attended a review meeting by Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu, he said. Mr. Reddy said that he sent a semi-official letter to Special Chief Secretary (Agriculture) seeking the reasons — whether it was due to orders from the Chief Secretary or the ECI — for not attending the meeting. “In my letter dated April 23, I did not even say it is a review meeting.

Source: The Hindu May 01, 2019 19:41 UTC