Going Viral: MP IAS officer transferred for praising Nehru on social media

Gangwar got marching orders on Tuesday after he praised the country’s first Prime Minister Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru in a post on the popular social media network.  The post written in Hindi, which has gone viral on social media, says “let me know the mistakes that Nehru should not have committed...Is it his mistake that he prevented all of us from becoming Hindu Talibani Rashtra in 1947? Is it his mistake to open IIT, ISRO, BARC, IISB, IIM, BHEL steel plant, dams, thermal power? Is it his mistake that he honoured Sarabhai, Homi Jehangir in place of intellectuals like Asaram and Ramdev?” 

According to a government official, the FB post had not gone down well with the top officials as it was in ‘violation’ of the service rules, following which an initial probe was conducted and Gangwar was transferred. However, his transfer order did not mention anything about his Facebook post on Nehru, the official added.