Patiala, Feb 23 (KMW): Union Health and Family Welfare Mminister Ghulam Nabi Azad today said the transfer of Keshav Desiraju from the post of union health secretary is an internal matter of the Health Ministry.
Mr Azad who was in the city to lay the foundation stone of up gradation of 60-year-old Government medical college here with the cost of Rs 150 crores, said, “it is our internal matter”, when asked to elaborate the transfer of Keshav Desiraju.
He has refused to respond the media reports regarding former health secretaries and several other eminent people have written to the Prime Minister expressing concern over the abrupt transfer of Keshav Desiraju from the post of union health secretary in violation of the Supreme Court’s order to ensure a two-year tenure to all senior officers in the interests of good governance.
