Punjab Industries and Technical Education Minister, Madan Mohan Mittal, Wednesday launched a no-holds-barred attack on state Chief Secretary (CS) Sarvesh Kaushal, saying that he was crossing the 'Lakshman Rekha' of a bureaucrat and that he would request the Chief Minister "to snub him". Speaking at the sidelines of a meeting at the BJP's party headquarters in Chandigarh, a visibly angry Mittal said that Kaushal had even been trying to subvert the relations between Punjab and the centre on various issues including the latest issue of SYL canal. The Minister and the Chief Secretary have been at loggerheads over the appointment of the Vice Chancellor of Maharaja Ranjit Singh Punjab Technical University as the Chief Secretary and a committee had recommended the name of a candidate which had not been accepted by the Minister. The minister stated that at least three names of deserving candidates were required but the committee has persisted with submitting only one name, that of Dr MP Poonia, Director of National Institute of Technical Teachers' Training and Research, Chandigarh. Mittal also said that it was Kaushal who was responsible for senior IAS officer Suresh Kumar not getting any assignments.