IAS Nidhi Choudhari transferred over tweets insulting to Mahatma Gandhi

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IAS Nidhi Choudhari transferred over tweets insulting to Mahatma Gandhi

An officer of the 2012 IAS batch, Choudhari has been posted as Deputy Secretary at BMC

Monday June 3, 2019 5:38 PM, IANS

[I bow before him with deepest regard and will do so till last breath, Nidhi wrote on Twitter tagging this photo with her message.]

Mumbai: The Maharashtra government on Monday transferred BrihanMumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) Joint Municipal Commissioner (Special) Nidhi Choudhari ostensibly as a fallout of her tweets against Mahatma Gandhi, official sources said here.

An officer of the 2012 IAS batch, Choudhari has been posted as Deputy Secretary in the Water Supply and Sanitation Department in the state headquarters.

Following a political furore, the state came down heavily on Choudhari for her tweet of May 17 that said: "What an exceptional celebration of 150th birth anniversary year is going on."

"High time, we removed his face from our currency, his statues from across the world, rename institutions/roads named after him! That would be a real tribute to all of us! ThankU #Godse for 30.01.1948", she added.

Under fire from various quarters, Choudhari said on Friday she had deleted her controversial tweet.

"I have deleted my tweet of 17.05.2019 w.r.t. Gandhiji beause some people misunderstood it. If only they had followed my timeline since 2011, they would've understood that I would NEVER even dream of insulting Gandhiji. I bow before him with deepest regard and will do so till last breath," she tweeted.

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