Patna,(BiharTimes): The Bharatiya Janata Party’s appeal to the Election Commission to remove principal home secretary, Amir Subhani, has backfired as he was appointed to this post when the saffron party was sharing power with the Janata Dal (United). 
Yes, Subhani has been on this post for six long years––which is long for any officer––but in the first four of these years the BJP was very much in power. It never found any fault with him and the NDA won 206 out of 243 seats in the 2010 Assembly election and 31 out of 40 in 2014 Lok Sabha election. The last one is worth mentioning as the BJP swept the election even when it was out of power and opposing CM Nitish Kumar.
Subhani succeeded Afzal Amanullah as home secretary in October 2009. In the Lok Sabha election held in mid-2009 the NDA got 32 out of 40 seats.
The BJP won even from Siwan, the home district of the home secretary, in 2014 Lok Sabha election. 
RJD leader Abdul Bari Siddiqui and JD(U) spokesman Neeraj Kumar on Saturday strongly criticised the BJP for demanding Subhani’s removal on the plea that he would support the ruling Janata Dal (United) in Bihar. They charged the saffron party with communalising the bureaucracy when there is absolutely no scope for it in secular India.
Political observers are of the view that there is no doubt in the fact that Subhani has been on this post for six long years––barring a brief period during the tenure of Jitan Ram Manjhi––but to make it a point that he would give undue favour to the ruling coalition sounds somewhat bizarre. How can a single officer ensure the victory to the ruling alliance in the entire state when he could not facilitate its victory in his home constituency of Siwan? BJP’s Om Prakash Yadav defeated Hena Shahab, wife of RJD strongman, Mohammad Shahabuddin in the last Lok Sabha election.
Another analyst said that no doubt Subhani is among the handful of senior bureaucrats on whom chief minister Nitish Kumar trust; but then to single out by name just one of them suggests that the BJP wants to communalise the atmosphere. The BJP do this when it is not very sure about its victory, he added.