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New Delhi:Most of the newly elected ministers in Madhya Pradesh are having a tough time at office as they are working without personal staff and personal assistants considered as their ears and eyes for the last one month..
Last week, the chief minister turned down the recommendations of 15 ministers for appointment of personal staff as they were working for several years during the Shivraj Singh Chouhan government...
What triggered this scrutiny of personal staff and appointments of bureaucrats was when Yadav found Deputy Labour Commissioner Lakshmi Prasad Pathak, the OSD of former Union minister and MP labour minister Prahlad Singh Patel, is facing corruption charges, It was found that the Lokayukta is investigating Pathak in a case of corruption and that he has been charge sheeted in a court...
Since then all recommendation of appointment of personal staff and personal assistant and OSD has been pending and ministers are running from pillar to post for getting their regular work done...
A senior BJP leader, who worked under Shivraj Singh Chouhan, recounted an incident where a fellow minister had to take help from other bureaucrats for inputs on presentation as his personal private staff was not well-versed with the subject while the secretary was sick...
