Within a day of AAP leader Gopal Italia’s jibe at Harsh Sanghavi over an alleged goof up of the Gujarat home department, the government issued a circular mandating registration of all government officials.

On Sept 3, Italia criticised  Sanghavi after he received a notification sanctioning his promotion from constable to head constable despite letting off the job in 2015.

However, the Ahmedabad police clarified the matter, stating the document was part of an assessment process and not a promotion order.

As per the government circular released on Sept 4, all government officials and employees must compulsorily register on the Karmyogi application, a centralised digital information of its employees.

The government has directed that the registration process be completed within a month. Moreover, the heads of the concerned offices must certify the registration of their employees, failing which salaries will not be disbursed.

Gopal Italia’s jibe

Italia took to social media platform X, displaying a major lapse in the department’s operations.

In a mocking jibe at Sanghavi, he said, “I am grateful to the Home Minister Harsh Sanghavi for promoting me to the rank of Head Constable and including my name at number 726 in this year’s Constable promotion list even though I left my job in the Gujarat Police in 2015.”

Responding to these claims, Ahmedabad police posted on X, “Recently, 137 Head Constables in Ahmedabad were promoted to the rank of Assistant Sub-Inspector (ASI), and directions were issued to fill the vacancies immediately by promoting police constables to head constables.”

“This list included the names of all police constables who had joined the department up to Jan 11, 2012. Since Gopal Italia joined the police force in 2012, his name was included in the list. However, no police station is mentioned against his name, which clearly indicates that Italia has not been promoted to the rank of Head Constable. The messages circulating on social media are false and baseless. It appears that Italia has not read the letter he posted properly,” read the tweet.

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