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NEW DELHI/KOLKATA: Continuing its administrative and constabulary shake-up successful assembly poll-bound states, Election Commission connected Tuesday replaced further directors wide (ADGs) of South Bengal and North Bengal regions, 4 constabulary commissioners, a lawman commissioner and a twelve SPs successful West Bengal.
In Kerala, it directed the assignment of an IAS serviceman and 2 Kerala Administrative Service (KAS) officers arsenic territory predetermination officers (DEOs), and 2 IPS officers arsenic territory constabulary main and DIG.The changes successful Bengal, including that of main secretary, location secretary, DGP and Kolkata Police commissioner earlier, prompted CM and TMC main Mamata Banerjee to say, "Remember, each serviceman yet belongs to the system.
Even aft the predetermination is declared, an elected govt continues to stay successful spot and they volition yet enactment for us.""You person changed everyone. What volition hap if a catastrophe strikes now? Chief secretary, commissioners of constabulary and others who had acquisition and an knowing of the crushed concern person been removed. If determination is immoderate breakdown successful instrumentality and order, past the work volition person to beryllium borne by EC," she told reporters portion announcing TMC's campaigner list. EC was operating from the shadows to assistance BJP, she alleged, saying, "Is determination an volition to incite unrest? Is determination immoderate program to trigger thing up of Eid?"EC has said that it has carried retired the transfers successful pursuance of its nonsubjective to guarantee elections escaped of intimidation, unit and inducements.
It said the shunted officers had been barred from poll-related assignments.The canvass sheet connected Tuesday besides deployed 1,111 cardinal observers for the assembly polls successful Bengal, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Assam and Puducherry arsenic good arsenic bypolls successful 8 seats. Among them was Bengal's erstwhile location caput J P Meena, who was replaced by Sanghamitra Ghosh connected Sunday.Meena volition oversee Tiruchirappalli (West) constituency, which was won by AIADMK successful 2011 and successful a consequent bypoll, earlier DMK secured it successful 2016 and 2021, according to an EC note.These cardinal observers see 557 wide observers, 188 constabulary observers and 366 expenditure observers.While Bengal volition person the highest fig of wide observers (294) - 1 for each assembly constituency - and 84 constabulary observers, the highest fig of expenditure observers (151) are headed for Tamil Nadu, fixed its past of circulation of unaccounted currency arsenic canvass inducement. The observers indispensable scope their respective constituencies by Wednesday.In Bengal, 17 IPS officers were posted crossed antithetic constabulary districts and regions. Rajesh Kumar Singh and K Jayaraman - some 1997 batch IPS officers - were posted arsenic ADGs of North Bengal and South Bengal regions, respectively. Similarly, EC ordered that Akhilesh Kumar Chaturvedi beryllium posted arsenic commissioner of constabulary (CP) of Howrah; Amit Kumar Singh arsenic CP of Barrackpore; Pranav Kumar arsenic CP of Asansol-Durgapur, and Sunil Kumar Yadav arsenic CP of Chandannagar.At the territory oregon part level, caller SPs were posted successful Barasat, Coochbehar, Birbhum, Islampur, Hooghly Rural, Diamond Harbour, Murshidabad, Basirhat, Malda, Purba Medinipur, Jangipur and Pashchim Medinipur.IPS serviceman Yeilwad Shrikant Jagannathrao was appointed arsenic lawman commissioner, cardinal division, Kolkata, replacing Indira Mukherjee, who had drawn EC's ire for repeated protests by BLOs and others astatine the Bengal's CEO office.TOI had reported connected Tuesday that much transfers astatine the territory level successful Bengal were successful the offing.In Kerala, bureaucratic changes were made successful Kozhikode, Thrissur, Alappuzha and Kannur districts. T Narayanan was posted arsenic territory constabulary chief, Kozhikode; Thomson Jose arsenic DIG range, Thrissur; Inbasekhar arsenic territory collector-cum-DEO, Alappuzha; Vandana S arsenic returning officer, Irikkur; and Sachin Krishna arsenic returning officer, Dharmadam.
