Poll panel shunts UP officials for being Mayawati ‘agents’
February 13th, 2012 - 8:00 pm ICT by IANS
Lucknow, Feb 13 (IANS) The Election Commission Monday ordered immediate removal of nearly a dozen officials, including some IAS and IPS officers, from certain key positions after they were accused of working as “agents” of the ruling Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP).
The Election Commission has not only shifted them from the existing appointments, but made it a point to ensure that they did not remain associated with any election duty.
Significantly, most of the officials were posted in or around Rae Bareli and Amethi parliamentary constituencies, represented by UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi and Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi.
The orders for their transfer followed complaints made by some Congress leaders.
Prominent among those to be given marching orders were Rae Bareli district magistrate Amrita Soni, Meerut deputy inspector general (DIG) of police Prem Prakash, Bhadohi sub divisional officer Anjani Kumar Singh, Amethi (Chhatrapati Shahuji Maharaj Nagar) additional district magistrate M.L. Pandey and Dalmau sub-divisional magistrate B.L. Saroj.
Junior police officials to be shunted out included Gautam Budh Nagar SP (Rural) Rakesh Jolly, Jaunpur DySP Hari Nath Sharma, Amethi Kotwali incharge Anand Bajpai, Mohanganj SHO Anil Kumar Shahi, Rae Bareli DySP Sudhakar Singh and Unjh (Bhadohi) SHO Ramesh Ram.
“The officials were removed from their present places of posting in view of complaints that they were not working independently and were even accused of behaving as agents of the party in power,” said a commission official.
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