IAS officer embraces Islam, says feeling ‘victimised’

Jaipur: Alleging that he is being “victimised”, a senior IAS officer here from the Scheduled Caste (SC) community has changed his religion and applied on Thursday for Voluntary Retirement from Service (VRS) in protest against the extension of tenure awarded to Chief Secretary (CS) C.S. Rajan.

“I am Chairman of RSRTC [Rajasthan State Road Transport Corporation] and Additional Chief Secretary for the last over four years, and competent for the post of Chief Secretary, but the present CS is given 3 months extension by the state government, hence I cannot work under a junior,” Chairman of RSRTC Umrao Salodiya said.

“I had understanding that being member of Scheduled Caste and senior IAS officer cadre, I would be given a chance to work as Chief Secretary, I feel victimised, hence I submitted three months notice of VRS to the state government,” the Additional Chief Secretary rank IAS officer said.

“Now the state government has to take a decision on my VRS cum protest letter within three months. However, my retirement is due June 2016,” he said.

Giving another example of a case, in which he filed an First Information Report (FIR) at the Gandhi Nagar police station against a judicial officer in 2014, no action was initiated by the police, he said. “Now I will be called as Umrao Khan,” the officer said.

“Being a Hindu and SC member, I was always victimised, hence I converted my religion to Muslim by reading “Kalma” in a masjid, but members of my family have not changed [their] religion,” he said.

When asked whether he has any plan for remarriage with any Muslim woman/girl, he said, “No way. I have my family. I feel happy now, satisfied that I protested against victimisation”.

Present Chief Secretary C.S. Rajan, who has to retire on Thursday, has been given three months extension by the government. When contacted, the Department of Personnel official said he had also heard on a TV news channel, but so far no letter had been sent.