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The Union Tribal Affairs Ministry on Saturday declared "null and void" the suspension of the managing director of TRIFED..
Ramsinh Rathwa, the chairman of the cooperative body associated with the Union Ministry of Tribal Affairs, had on Thursday issued an order suspending Geetanjali Gupta for "administrative mismanagement"...
Issuing an order on Saturday, the ministry said that Gupta, an additional secretary level officer in the Indian Administrative Service, was appointed to the post of Managing Director, TRIFED, by the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet...
"Therefore, the office memorandum issued by you (Rathwa) on October 19, 2023 whereby the suspension order of Gitanjali Gupta, Managing Director, TRIFED has been issued, is considered null and void," the ministry's order read...
Rathwa's order suspending Gupta had come more than two months after two RSS-affiliated organizations - Akhil Bhartiya Vanvasi Kalyan Ashram and Sahakar Bharati - sought action over a letter by another senior officer of TRIFED identifying them as political bodies...
