Young bureaucrat Nidhi Chaudhari has refused to be cowed into submission following her unceremonious transfer on the charges of tweeting anti-Mahatma Gandhi statements and flouting service rules. A day after she was shunted out from the Mumbai civic body where she worked as joint commissioner till Monday, she took to social media to express her anguish and a steely resolve to express her views in future as well.

Chaudhari's long poem (in Hindi) on her Facebook page states that she wouldn't let her self-respect be assaulted for holding on to a coveted position (in the Indian Administrative Service). She said if Bapu (Mahatma Gandhi) was alive today, he too would have cried with her.