'Govt using senior officers for propaganda not right', says Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge

KALABURGI (kARNATAKA): Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Wednesday hit out at the Bharatiya Janta Party-led Centre over its "saturation drive" saying that the government deploying senior officers for propaganda of their programs is not right and has never happened before...

As per a purported government order, dated October 18, under the Centre's saturation drive senior bureaucrats will be deployed as ". " across the country to showcase the achievements of the 9 years of the government...

The Congress chief wrote a letter to PM Modi on Sunday urging him to withdraw the order immediately...

Earlier on Sunday, the Congress president in his letter to PM Modi said, "They are to be deployed as Rath Prabharis to showcase the achievements of the last 9 years of the Government of India..

Taking to the social media platform, the BJP chief on Sunday said, "It maybe an alien concept to the Congress Party, but public service delivery is the duty of a Government. wants to ensure saturation of all schemes and ensure all beneficiaries are reached, nobody who has the interest of the poor in his mind can have a problem..

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