Senior IAS Officer complaints against PC - Humiliation
A Senior IAS officer of the 1977 batch - the Secretary in the Urban Development Ministry has complained to the Prime Minister that Finance Minister Chidambaram has humiliated him in a meeting. It all happened about the language of the Secretary - the FM is said to have told the Secretary that he does not understand his English and asked him to speak in Hindi. The Secretary complained that the FM repeated the same remark over and over in a "tone and tenor that was expressly humiliating".
The officers in the Finance Ministry know that the FM is not exactly courteous and friendly in his meetings with the babus - the suave smooth smiling calm Harvard scholar that you see on TV is an altogether different PC that you will not find in North Block meetings - but they all agree that in any meeting, he is the most well-informed person and he loses his cool when half baked information is fed to him.
The whole incident is just another example to show that the government is weak and a weak government is prone to attack.