UP: A friendly cricket match between IAS and IPS officers turns unfriendly after Twitter row

Uttar Pradesh recently witnessed an interesting tussle between IAS and IPS officers as to who is supreme when it comes to controlling law and order. This tussle found echo in the friendly cricket match between IAS XI and IPS XI held recently, which ended in an unfriendly twitter war after victory of IPS XI.

The twitter message by Central IPS Association even talked about `DNA’ which was politely answered by Central IAS Association saying DNA Test should not be involved in a friendly cricket match.

It all started after IPS XI won the friendly cricket match against IAS XI with 9 wickets. The Central IPS Association issued a tweet saying:

The Central IAS Association in its reply said: “Congratulations. Well deserved. DNA is good – always. Let’s not (make) a friendly cricet match into a DNA test.

Both the tweets were widely shared and in no time became an issue of discussion on the social media. Senior IAS and IPS officers were aghast at this development and in private objected to the linking of DNA with the cricket match.

Secretary UP IPS Association Asim Arun tried to salvage the situation when he wrote in his personal tweet: “A game is a game and we play it in that spirit. Further, there is no tussle between IAS-IPS in UP. There are issues of how we can provide better L&O (law and order) and the two services are working together for it.”

“UP IPS Association requests CIPSA (Central IPS Association) to remove/ edit its recent post on the subject”, he further said in his tweet.

This tussle started between officers of two premium administrative cadre after Chief secretary Rajiv Kumar issued an order on September 7 saying District Magistrates should preside over the crime meetings in districts as “they are also responsible for maintaining law and order.”

This order was opposed by DGP Sulkhan Singh. He found support from Central IPS Association and later the said letter was shelved. Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath during his address during IAS Week had told IAS officers that they should mend their ways because officers of other cadre are not happy with them.