The tenure of Madhya Pradesh Chief Secretary Iqbal Singh Bains has been extended for six months, now he will remain in office till May 31, 2023. The Central Government today issued an order to extend the tenure of Iqbal Singh Bains on his retirement day. With this, the ongoing discussion regarding the names of the new Chief Secretary of Madhya Pradesh has come to a complete halt.
Significantly, Chief Secretary Iqbal Singh Bains was retiring on 30 November, discussion was going on about who would be the next Chief Secretary, senior IAS Anurag Jain, Mohammad Suleman and one or two more names were being discussed.
CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan wanted a strict and experienced IAS officer like Chief Secretary Iqbal Singh Bains for this post as the election year is near, for this he had also sent proposals of some names to the Central Government, but things did not work out.
Sources said that CM Shivraj had a personal meeting with the Prime Minister and discussed some names, but the name suggested by him did not get the green signal from the PM, after which CM Shivraj wrote a letter to the Central Government on November 9, requesting an extension of the tenure of Iqbal Singh Bains.
CM Chouhan had requested to extend the tenure for six months, which was accepted by the Central Government and on Wednesday issued the order for extension of service of Iqbal Singh Bains.