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Notice to BJP MP for duties he no longer holds
Jodhpur district election officer Ashish Kumar Mishra issued a notice to BJP MP Manna Lal Rawat for failing to update employee records on a government portal, unaware that Rawat had resigned from…
The Story in Brief
Jodhpur district election officer Ashish Kumar Mishra issued a notice to BJP MP Manna Lal Rawat for failing to update employee records on a government portal, unaware that Rawat had resigned from that transport department post in 2024 to contest elections, the Times of India reports. The notice was withdrawn the next day after social media ridicule. Rawat confirmed the officer called to apologise. The error exposed that election authorities still listed Rawat as a government employee nearly three years after his resignation, raising questions about data maintenance in the state's digital systems.
The Indian Opinion
The Jodhpur mix-up will inevitably fuel two lazy narratives: that the government is out to get a BJP MP, or that petty bureaucracy is always the villain. Neither fits. The notice was a straightforward data-entry failure in a portal that should have flagged Rawat's resignation 18 months ago. The real test is whether the district election machinery will now audit its entire employee database. How many other retired officers are still listed as active? That number, not the mockery of one wrong notice, will show whether this was a one-off error or a systemic rot.
Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com
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