Patriot Monitoring Desk
SRINAGAR: Shah Faesal, IAS officer, known as outspoken bureaucrat from Jammu and Kashmir while commenting on Article 35A controversy twitted,”I would compare Article 35A to a marriage-deed/nikahnama. You repeal it and the relationship is over. Nothing will remain to be discussed afterwards”.
https://twitter.com/shahfaesal/status/1026101814926688256
Earlier centre has ordered action against Shah Faesal, for his tweets that he has described as a “sarcastic tweet against rape-culture in south Asia”. The IAS official went public with the show cause notice and seemed to question the government’s gag order for bureaucrats as well.
“The irony here is that service rules with a colonial spirit are invoked in a democratic India to stifle the freedom of conscience,” he said in a tweet and a Facebook post.
Mr Faesal, 35, is the only IAS officer from Jammu and Kashmir to have ever topped the civil services exam. The 2011 batch officer, who has been a role model for the youth and inspired many others to join the civil services, is currently an Edward S Mason Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School on study leave.
https://twitter.com/shahfaesal/status/1016683369004982272
The central government had banned officials from criticising the government on social media in 2016. Under these rules, a statement of fact or an opinion which “has the effect of an adverse criticism” of any current or recent policy or action is treated as criticism.
Back in April when the IAS officer had put out the tweet, Mr Faesal had drawn a sharp reaction from some people who saw the reference to “Rapistan” as a reference to India and a contrast to Pakistan.
https://twitter.com/shahfaesal/status/988043951767568385
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