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NEW DELHI/KOLKATA: A time aft it substituted Bengal main caput and main caput (home) with its ain choices, EC Monday replaced the DGP and Kolkata Police commissioner, among others.
Hours aft announcing the assembly canvass docket for Bengal on with those of 3 different states and a UT, the canvass sheet precocious Sunday nighttime shunted retired Bengal main caput Nandini Chakravorty, replacing her with 1993-batch IAS serviceman Dushyant Nariala. Principal caput (home) Jagdish Prasad Meena was replaced with 1997-batch IAS serviceman Sanghamitra Ghosh. Chakravorty took implicit arsenic main caput connected Jan 1 and was the archetypal pistillate appointed to the station successful WB.
She was besides the state’s archetypal pistillate location secretary. This is the archetypal clip WB’s apical bureaucrat has been changed up of an election. On Monday, EC ordered different reshuffle, shunting retired DGP Peeyush Pandey and replacing him with 1992- batch IPS serviceman Siddh Nath Gupta. Kolkata Police commissioner Supratim Sarkar was replaced by Ajay Kumar Nand, a 1996-batch IPS officer. EC’s overriding powers to displacement officers straight engaged successful the behaviour of polls stem from Article 324 of the Constitution, which places the full predetermination machinery successful a poll-going authorities oregon UT nether its “superintendence, absorption and control”.
The 2021 assembly and 2024 LS polls successful Bengal besides saw transfers of the DGP and elder officials identified arsenic “too adjacent to the enactment successful office”.
“CEC Gyanesh Kumar had astatine the EC presser Sunday assured that elections successful Bengal would beryllium violence-free and peaceful. In pursuance of this objective, EC appointed/ transferred elder constabulary officials, including the DGP and Kolkata Police commissioner,” an EC authoritative told TOI.
Sources indicated much transfers astatine the territory level successful the days to come, to beryllium done successful consultation with Bengal peculiar perceiver N K Mishra.Also making a alteration successful the important station of ADG and IGP (law and order) — with a nonstop relation successful curbing governmental clashes and unit arsenic good arsenic ensuring judicious deployment of information forces for canvass information — Election Commission replaced incumbent Vineet Goyal with 1995-batch IPS serviceman Ajay Mukund Ranade.
Natarajan Ramesh Babu, a 1991-batch IPS officer, was ordered to beryllium posted arsenic DG correctional services.
In its orders, EC made it wide that these officers person been barred from each enactment related to the Bengal elections. Changes successful the constabulary setup during an predetermination play are not unprecedented. Before the 2019 LS polls, the committee had replaced Anuj Sharma with Rajesh Kumar arsenic Kolkata Police commissioner. Since the 2016 assembly polls, Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee has brought backmost transferred officers to their erstwhile posts aft the elections were over.
