By IANS
Bangalore : Karnataka Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy's much-publicised "major surgery" to tone up the state's bureaucracy has been indefinitely postponed.
While the chief minister had announced at public meting that he would hold a meeting with senior officers May 25 to effect bureaucratic changes, the meet stood cancelled, as he is visiting the Ullal assembly constituency for campaigning ahead of the June 2 by-poll, an official statement said Thursday.
A spokesperson for the chief minister told IANS that no fresh date has been fixed for the meeting.
He said Kumaraswamy will reach Ullal from Bidar in north Karnataka where he was camping since Tuesday meeting mostly sugarcane farmers facing a financial crisis as their crop has not been bought by factories for crushing.
Meanwhile, the IAS (Indian Administrative Service) Officers Association in the state has agreed to making their annual statement of assets public.
The association has said that the officers have no objection if the statements are displayed on the government website.