The state government has issued a show-cause notice to senior IAS officer Mohammad Mohsin, asking him to explain a tweet on Tablighi Jamaat workers.
Mohsin, who is currently posted as the backward classes welfare secretary, has since deleted the tweet.
The Department of Personnel & Administrative Reforms (DPAR) took exception to Mohsin’s April 27 tweet, which has been quoted in the notice thus: “More than 300 Tablighi Heroes are donating their plasma to serve the country in New Delhi only. What about #GodiMedia? They will not show the works of humanity done by these heroes.”
The notice goes on to say: “The adverse coverage this tweet has got in the media has been taken note seriously by the government given the serious nature of Covid-19 issue and the sensitivities involved.”
Mohsin has been asked to submit a written explanation, failing which the government said it will take disciplinary action.
Confirming the receipt of the notice, Mohsin said: “I will respond to it as per law and rules.”
Mohsin was in the news during the 2019 Lok Sabha elections after the Election Commission briefly suspended him for inspecting Prime Minister Narnedra Modi’s helicopter in Odisha during a campaign.