Home secretary is shifted due to rift with government? Sep 01, 2015 .
In a sudden and surprise move, the Narendra Modi government on Monday gave marching orders to L.C. Goyal as Union home secretary, and named senior IAS officer Rajiv Mehrishi for the top job at MHA. A 1979-batch IAS officer, Mr Goyal had barely completed six months in the high-profile post, which has a two-year fixed tenure