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Tainted Officer Dominating Venkaiah Team!

Tainted Officer Dominating Venkaiah Team!

An Indian Information Service officer, who had faced allegations in the sensational coal scam, is said to be ruling roost in the newly-formed team of Vice President of India M Venkaiah Naidu.

According to highly placed sources in Delhi, this official, taking advantage of the caste equations, quietly entered Venkaiah’s team recently and started dictating terms to the other officials. 

The same officer played a key role in the press information bureau as well during the tenure of Venkaiah as Union Information and Broadcasting Minister, say the sources.

When veteran director late Dasari Narayana Rao was the Union minister of state for coal, this IIS officer was the former’s personal secretary and had allegedly played a role in the coal scam. This was mentioned even by former Union coal secretary P C Parakh in his book on the coal scam. 

After Dasari’s exit and the subsequent general elections in 2014, this officer tried to get into the peshi of Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu using the same caste equations, but somehow, Naidu did not entertain him. Finally, he managed to get the shelter in Venkaiah’s peshi.

Now, this officer said to have entered a key position in the Vice President’s Office and dominating the other officials in the peshi, sources said.

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