PATNA, Dec. 27 -- The Bihar Revenue Service Association (BIRSA), which represents circle officers, have locked horn with departmental minister and deputy chief minister Vijay Kumar SInha.

The BIRSA in a letter written to chief minister Nitish Kumar on Wednesday and made public on Saturday, has alleged public humiliation of officers by the deputy CM during district-level public grievance programmes. The BIRSA threatened if such humiliation are not stopped immediately, its officers would be forced to boycott such programmes in future.

Since, after assuming charge of the department, had held public dialogues in districts such as Patna, Muzaffarpur and Purnea, where he listened to citizens' complaints in the presence of departmental officer...