

Throughout his career, Khemka has suffered at the hands of his political masters for his refusal to compromise.


But, true to his reputation for being scrupulously honest, Khemka didn't budge. With the Congress party in power, most people called it a suicidal move. The IAS officer shot into the limelight in 2012, when he cancelled the mutation of a land deal between realty major DLF and a company which belonged to Congress president Sonia Gandhi's son-in-law Robert Vadra. Meet the forever-in-transit man of the Indian bureaucracy, Ashok Khemka. Her victory was a foregone conclusion, particularly as a majority of Shiv Sena MLAs had decamped to the NDA a few weeks earlier, bringing down Maharashtra’s Maha Vikas Agadhi (MVA) government.īJP Continued Its Poll Dance in 2022 with A Few Slips in 2023 It Has Plans to Put.Twenty-seven years in service and fifty-three transfers: that's an average of six months in each posting. The ruling NDA made another claim to history by anointing Droupadi Murmu as President of India, making her the first member of a tribal community to hold the nation’s highest office. It was a feat eclipsed only by the BJP’s seventh consecutive victory in Gujarat, with a record 52.5 percent vote share. Yogi Adityanath emerged as the BJP’s new hero figure, scripting history by becoming the first Uttar Pradesh chief minister in four decades to lead his party to a majority. It retained five of the six states it had held at the beginning of the year, with convincing majorities. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) easily overcame anti-incumbency in the eighth year of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government, despite the social and economic fallout of the Covid-19 pandemic. At the end of it, Brand Modi appeared strong, the Aam Admi Party (AAP) had gathered force and the Congress, by contrast, had lost ground. The year 2022 was replete with political drama: sudden shifts in power, theatrical campaigns and stunning electoral outcomes.
