Mamata vs EC: Bengal govt moves Calcutta high court against transfers of IAS, IPS

Trinamool Congress connected Friday approached the Calcutta High Court challenging the transportation of respective IAS and IPS officers successful West Bengal by the Election Commission of India aft the announcement of assembly polls.The petition filed by TMC person and lawyer Kalyan Banerjee names Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar arsenic a respondent. The plea questions the EC’s determination to transportation officers without consulting the authorities government. The substance is apt to beryllium heard aboriginal adjacent week.The Election Commission had transferred a ample fig of elder officials, including the main secretary, location caput and manager wide of police, wrong hours of announcing the assembly elections connected March 15.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee criticised the determination connected Thursday, calling it “an undeclared emergency” and a “deliberate plan to prehend power of Bengal done coercion and organization manipulation”. “What we are witnessing is thing abbreviated of an undeclared emergency, driven by governmental vendetta, not antiauthoritarian principles,” she said.Banerjee aboriginal wrote to CEC Kumar, urging the EC to refrain from specified “arbitrary, unilateral and biased” action.

"EC has crossed each boundaries of decency and law propriety. Since the commencement of the alleged Special Intensive Revision, the ECI has acted with evident bias, showing small respect for crushed realities oregon the well-being of the people," the main curate wrote.The Election Commission connected Thursday paused immoderate of its inter-state transportation orders for elder constabulary officers. Bidhannagar CP Murlidhar Sharma and Siliguri CP Syed Waquar Raza, who were earlier asked to determination to Tamil Nadu, person been told to wait. Transfer orders for Barrackpore CP Praveen Tripathi and Howrah CP Akash Magharia to Tamil Nadu, arsenic good arsenic Birbhum SP Amandeep’s determination to Karnataka, person besides been enactment connected hold.Elections for the 294-member West Bengal Assembly volition beryllium held successful 2 phases connected April 23 and 29, with counting scheduled for May 4.