Report: An IRS official was suspended after insulting Nirmala Sitharaman.

Report: An IRS official was suspended after insulting Nirmala Sitharaman

The Center suspended IRS official Balamurugan for calling for the resignation of Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman. Just two days before his planned retirement date of January 31st, he was placed on suspension.

Indian Revenue Service (IRS) officer B Balamurugan was suspended by the Center on January 29 after he called for the resignation of Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman. On January 31, two days before to his planned retirement, he was placed on suspension. Balamurugan was the Deputy Commissioner for Goods and Services Tax (GST) in Chennai.

Two days before to his planned retirement date of January 31st, he was suspended. Reportedly, he had accused the Finance Minister earlier in January of 'converting ED into an extended arm of BJP'.

They're trying to get a lesson out of me," he told Hindustan Times.

The suspension order that HT saw said only that "disciplinary proceedings are being considered"; it included no more accusations against him.

Balamurugan made a statement about the Finance Minister.

Media sources state that Balamurugan wrote to President Draupadi Murmu demanding the Finance Minister's dismissal due to the ED's summons about a money laundering investigation against two Dalit farmers in the Tamil Nadu district of Salem in July 2023. Two farmers, Kannaiyan (72) and Krishnan (67), had alleged that an illegal land grab was being carried out by a local BJP member. Reports state that since his caste was included in the ECIR (Enforcement Case Information Report), his summons caused a sensation on social media at the beginning of last month.

In his letter to the President, he said, "This incident shows how the Enforcement Directorate has become an extended arm of the BJP." "In actuality, after taking over, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman effectively changed the Enforcement Directorate."Directorate in the BJP Policy Enforcement Directorate," he said in the letter that HT cited.

He further revealed to HT that on January 22, during the Lord Ram Lalla Mandir Pran Pratistha celebration in Ayodhya, he had sent a letter to the Union Revenue Secretary and the Finance Minister expressing his desire to continue working while the Central Government was half-way through. was closed for the day.

"The only place I could work was our Chennai office. He became much angrier as a result. I've apparently been suspended as a result of these two occurrences. He said to HT, "They want to take me to school.