The recent disparaging comments made by an MLA of the ruling CPI(M) against a woman IAS officer in connection with alleged encroachment in Munnar hill station in Kerala underlines the uneasiness that exists between bureaucrats and politicians in the region.
On Monday, the state women’s commission filed a Suo Motu case on the basis of media reports against Devikulam MLA S Rajendran for calling sub-collector Renu Raj ‘brainless’ and ‘lacking common sense’. The CPM legislator was speaking informally to locals last week near an alleged encroachment site when cameras caught him making snide comments against the young bureaucrat.