IAS officer who posted tweet on Mahatma Gandhi transferred

The Maharashtra government on Monday transferred IAS officer Nidhi Choudhari for her disparaging tweets on Gandhi, and shifted her from the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) as deputy municipal commissioner to the Water Supply and Sanitation department as deputy secretary in the Mantralaya. The Congress and the NCP had been demanding action against the young bureaucrat for her disparaging remarks.

The IAS officer, who was quite active on social media, courted controversy over her tweets where she said that Gandhi’s face be removed from currency notes, his statues removed from across the world, and institutions and roads named after him be renamed. “That would be a real tribute from all of us. Thank you #Godse for 30-1.1948,” she tweeted on May17.