Chandigarh Sep 23 PTI The Punjab government on Thursday shunted Chief Secretary Vini Mahajan and appointed Anirudh Tewari in her place Besides the government is learnt to have finalised the name of senior advocate DS Patwalia for the post of new advocate general of Punjab However the official order is awaited Atul Nanda had resigned as the AG after the unceremonious exit of Amarinder Singh Tewari is a 1990-batch IAS officer and is currently holding the position of the additional chief secretary development ACS food processing ACS horticulture and ACS governance reforms and public grievances Mahajan a 1987-batch IAS officer was appointed the chief secretary last year during the Amarinder Singh-led regime and she was the first woman to hold this post The posting orders of Mahajan will be issued later according to a government order issued on Thursday As per the order Vini Mahajan Ravneet Kaur 1988 batch-IAS officer Sanjay Kumar 1988-batch V K Janjua 1989-batch and Kripa Shankar Saroj 1989-batch have been designated as special chief secretaries with an immediate effect Tewari has served in various capacities in the state as well as in the central government He had also served as the ACS power new and renewable energy sources and principal secretary finance planning industries and commerce Tewari had also worked as the director in the Department of Economic Affairs Government of India and the country coordinator for International Fund for Agricultural Development IFAD an agency of the United Nations After the change of guard it was certain that the top bureaucrats of the state would be replaced Speculation is also rife about replacing Director General of Police Dinkar Gupta who is the husband of Mahajan For the new DGP the names of V K Bhawra Siddharth Chattopadhyay and IPS Sahota are doing the rounds There is also speculation about changing the Punjab Vigilance Bureau chief and for which the name of senior IPS officer Harpreet Singh Sidhu was in contention Sidhu is at present the chief of the Special Task Force on drugs Meanwhile 2004-batch IAS officer Varun Roojam Managing Director Markfed has been given the charge of special principal secretary to Deputy Chief Minister Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa On Tuesday the Channi-led government had shifted nine IAS officers and two PCS officers Prior to that it had replaced principal secretary and special principal secretary to the chief minister The Congress on Sunday had picked Charanjit Singh Channi as the leader of the states Congress Legislature Party He was sworn in as the chief minister on Monday Amarinder Singh had resigned as the chief minister on Saturday after being locked in a bitter power tussle with Punjab Congress chief Navjot Singh Sidhu PTI CHS VSD RDK RDK