New Delhi: Thirty officers from the Assam Civil Service (ACS) in Cachar district have written a memorandum to chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma against BJP MLA Kaushik Rai, news agency ANI reported.
The civil servants accused the BJP legislator from Lakhipur of misbehaving, insulting, and threatening them while they were reviewing the flood situation in the Sonai revenue circle, according to the memorandum.
The authorities said that during his visit to the relief camps, the BJP MLA suggested that Sonai Block Development Officer (BDO) should be beaten up in the same way as he was beaten up at the block office by various party supporters on March 10.
According to the cops, the panchayat representatives requested that the circle officer be penalised for failing to distribute relief materials and used unparliamentary language against the government apparatus.
The cops said they were labelled "opposition operatives" by the BJP member and his supporters.
Accussing Rai of abusing the circle officer and questioning his educational credentials, the memorandum said, “That, the very same shameful day of harassment continued further, while visiting the flood prone areas of Kaptanpur and Rupaibali under the Lakhipur constituency, he (the MLA) personally attacked both the Circle Officers of the Sonai Revenue Circle as ‘Rice Chors’ (rice thieves) and quoted that their bodies shall be infested by maggots."
The officials begged the chief minister to create a "better working environment" where their personal dignity and self-respect are not trampled on, claiming that the civil service fraternity in Cachar was "disheartened" and "dispirited."
(With ANI Inputs)