Yogi era: UP top bureaucracy, police due for reshuffle

With Gorakhpur Member of Parliament (MP) Yogi Adityanath taking over as the 21st chief minister of Uttar Pradesh on Sunday, the possibility of mass transfer of top state administrative and police officials are high, sooner than later.

The change of guard in UP is always accompanied by large scale reshuffle among the top echelons of the state bureaucracy to post select brass of officials on key posts and government departments.

The new dispensation understandably wants to post its choicest officials on significant posts, including chief secretary, director general of police (DGP), principal secretaries and secretaries of departments, directorates etc.

The incoming government justifies such reshuffle as implementing its blueprint for faster economic development and sprucing the law and order apparatus in the state.

Yogi’s predecessor Akhilesh Yadav, on becoming the UP CM on March 15, 2012, had reshuffled over 1,000 senior administrative and police officials within a month of taking oath of office.

His predecessor Mayawati, after taking over as the 17th CM of the state on May 13, 2007, had shunted over 200 senior IAS and IPS cadre officials within 3-4 days of assuming charge.

Meanwhile, the Yogi government is currently taking stock of the situation and preparing a list of officials and departments, which would be reshuffled.