Hyderabad: Unpredictability prevails over the continuance of retired bureaucrat Ajay Kallam as Principal Consultant to Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y.S.
Jagan Mohan Reddy.Though he was appointed on June 4, 2019, for a three-year term, Praveen Prakash, Principal Secretary to Chief Minister, cut short the regard to Kallam, along with that of several other consultants, to 2 years to result harmony in tenures among all the advisors.
The GO drew out by Praveen Prakash, obviously in consultation with the Chief Minister, fixed the period of all advisors for 2 years regardless of their rank and status, which too with a retrospective result.
This would suggest the end of Ajay Kallam's period by June 4 and sources informed this correspondent that there was no proposal in the CMO so far to extend his tenure.The periods of three other advisors-- Sajjala Ramakrishna Reddy, G.V.D.
Krishna Mohan and M.
Samuel-- will also end by mid-June, and the fate of Samuel too awaits balance.
Of the 25 or so advisors to either Chief Minister or government, Jagan Mohan Reddy utilises totally the services of only Krishna Mohan (interactions) and Ramakrishna Reddy (public affairs) while for lots of others these posts are simply ornamental, sources near the Chief Minister mentioned.
The extension of regard to only these two consultants is certain, they included.
Kallam, who played a crucial role in the developmental days of the YSR Congress regime in 2019, was appointed as the Principal Advisor with fantastic fanfare.The celebration leaders were likewise delighted over the Chief Minister properly accommodating Kallam in acknowledgment of his efforts to mobilise the support of government employees across the state in the 2019 assembly surveys.
He was made the head of the CMO and allotted several crucial topics.
Quickly, he went out of the orbit of power in CMO, and the entry of Praveen Prakash even more slanted the balance of power.
Last year, the Chief Minister removed all powers of Kallam by getting rid of subjects he was managing in the CMO on the pretext that retired bureaucrats need to not process files.