The EC’s decision of inducting new staff for the top posts came just after announcing the election dates for the 5 states.
EC is not reshuffling the top officials only in West Bengal, it also transferred the 5 senior Superintendents in Assam and reviewed the list of IAS officers, who can be used as District Electoral Officers. It has transferred 4 Superintendents of Police in TN.
In its initial order on Sunday, it removed the Chief Secretary, Nandini Chakravarty and Home Secretary Jagdish Prasad Meena in West Bengal. Subsequently it the state’s DGP Peeyush Pandey, and Supratim Sarkar on Monday.
The list of new appointments
Dushyant Nariyala as additional Chief Secretary of the state, North Bengal development department.
Sanghamitra Ghosh, new home Secretary for Women and Child development department.
Siddh Nath Gupta, DGP
AjayKumar Nand, Commissioner of Kolkata Police.
EC further clarified the new officers will report before 3 on Monday and the officers who are transferred out will not be used in election process till the election is over.
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