Chhattisgarh cabinet in a key decision on Saturday decided to appoint Ashish Karma, third son of late Congress leader Mahendra Karma, as deputy collector.
Late Mahendra Karma was killed in Jheeram Valley Naxal attack on May 25, 2013.
Briefing media after the cabinet meeting, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Ravindra Choubey said the proposal for compassionate appointment of Mahendra Karma’s son was received. The cabinet gave the approval on the proposal and decided to appointment him as deputy collector.
The cabinet also discussed issues related to farmers and forest-dwellers, he added. After the demise of Mahendra Karma, his wife Devati Karma fought election from Dantewada. She won it. During 2018 assembly elections, she lost. His two sons, eldest and middle are already in politics.