IPS Rahul Bhagat can become CM Secretary, speculations intensify

Raipur. In Chhattisgarh, police has started moving from headquarters to the bureaucracy of the ministry. This time there is talk of making an IPS officer the CM Secretary. The name of 2005 batch IPS Rahul Bhagat is being considered for this post. Bhagat is a trusted officer of nominated CM Vishnu Dev Sai. He was the Union Minister of State in Modi 1.0 and was the Special Secretary of SAI.

Both of them had completed a two-year tenure with each other. In such a situation, it is understood that Bhagat can join Shri Sai again. This will be the second such post in the state administration in which IPS will be appointed instead of IAS. Earlier, the Congress government has posted senior IPS Dipanshu Kabra on the post of CPR on IAS cadre post. However, names of Subodh Singh of the post of Chief Secretary to CM and IAS Sunil Jain of Kunkuri origin are also in discussion.