Be it being stripped of his official car for defying a chief minister, or being charge-sheeted for frivolous reasons, the actions of those with vested interests have not been able to shake his indomitable spirit. Throughout his career, Khemka has suffered at the hands of his political masters for his refusal to compromise. But, true to his reputation for being scrupulously honest, Khemka didn't budge. With the Congress party in power, most people called it a suicidal move. The IAS officer shot into the limelight in 2012, when he cancelled the mutation of a land deal between realty major DLF and a company which belonged to Congress president Sonia Gandhi's son-in-law Robert Vadra. Meet the forever-in-transit man of the Indian bureaucracy, Ashok Khemka. Twenty-seven years in service and fifty-three transfers: that's an average of six months in each posting.
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