So much work planned. News of another transfer. Crash landing again. Vested interests win. Déjà vu. But this is tem… https://t.co/6kI3CPV2Lv — Ashok Khemka (@AshokKhemka_IAS) 1510497819000

NEW DELHI: After he was transferred yesterday, yet again, senior Haryana bureaucrat Ashok Khemka tweeted saying "deja vu" and "vested interests win".Khemka has been transferred more than 46 times in 20-plus years of service, despite receiving 'outstanding' rankings in most of his evaluation reports.This latest transfer came a month after he asked a Haryana minister to return an official jeep he was using. Perhaps that's what he was referring to when he talked of "vested interests" in his tweet.The senior bureaucrat was moved from his post of principal secretary in the social justice and empowerment department, a mere three months after being transferred to the department. He has been moved to the sports and youth affairs department where he will be principal secretary.Last month, TOI reported that Khemka asked Haryana minister of state for social justice and empowerment Krishan Kumar Bedi to return the vehicle belonging to a district social welfare officer (DSWO) of Ambala. The minister had been using the vehicle for about a year and had not returned it despite several requests from the department and the chief minister's office. The DSWO requested the return of the vehicle saying his office was facing difficulties as that was the only official vehicle it had.Khemka wrote a letter to the minister requesting him to return the vehicle in the "public interest.""The strong should be protecting the weak. The strength of character lies in abiding by the rule of law and not in violating it. We have taken an oath, express or implied, before entering public service to bear true faith and allegiance to the Constitution of India as by established law, and to faithfully and conscientiously discharge our duties without fear or favour, affection or ill-will. I humbly request your goodself in public interest to return the vehicle," said Khemka in the letter.The minister told TOI he was using the vehicle's driver and not the vehicle itself."It was an internal matter. Now the vehicle has been restored to the officer concerned. You should also avoid publishing such news," said Bedi to TOI last month.Khemka in his letter said Bedi should have requisitioned more vehicles if he needed them."As per my knowledge, you are allotted two cars by the ministerial car section of the government. In case you or your personal staff requires more than two vehicles for performing official duties, a request may be made to the competent authority in the government." wrote Khemka.The bureaucrat first came into the limelight when in 2012 he cancelled a controversial land deal involving Congress president Sonia Gandhi's son-in-law Robert Vadra's firm and real estate giant DLF. The then Bhupinder Singh Hooda-led Congress government chargesheeted Khemka for "wrongly" cancelling the land deal.The BJP then won the Assembly election in Haryana in October 2014. They dropped the chargesheet against Khemka and in January 2016, promoted him to the post of principal secretary.