Andhra Pradesh GST officer Siddharthi Subhas Chandrabose was suspended for posting Amaravati flood photos on Facebook, sparking debate on administrative overreach, selective enforcement, and freedom of expression, highlighting tensions between bureaucratic discipline and democratic dissent in the Naidu government.

“The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom.”

—John Locke

In a striking display of administrative overreach, the Andhra Pradesh government has suspended GST Assistant Commissioner Siddharthi Subhas Chandrabose for posting flood photographs on Facebook. His “crime”? Documenting waterlogged Amaravati fields after rainfall and questioning the wisdom of building a “drone capital” in a flood-prone area.

Subhas’s August 18 posts were hardly se

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