Members of national panels have received calls from ministries to step down. Kavita Chowdhury reports

Not just governors, chiefs of statutory national commissions, too, have been asked to step down from their posts by the Narendra Modi government.



Several members of the National Disaster Management Authority appointed by the United Progressive Alliance government on Thursday said they had received calls from the home ministry, after which five members resigned.

National Commission for Protection of Child Rights chairperson Kushal Singh, who had been asked by the women and child development ministry to step down, however, refused to budge and moved the high court here.

It is believed Mamta Sharma, chairperson of the National Commission for Women, has also been asked to resign.



Sharma, a former Congress MLA from Bundi in Rajasthan, couldn't be contacted, as she was abroad.



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