The Election Fee on Monday ordered the transfers of the house secretaries of Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand, Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand forward of the Lok Sabha polls, The Occasions of India reported.
The polling physique additionally eliminated the secretaries of the overall administrative division in Mizoram and Himachal Pradesh from their posts, the newspaper reported.
The Election Fee additionally eliminated West Bengal Director Normal of Police Rajeev Kumar from his publish, in accordance with The Indian Categorical. Nevertheless, quickly after his elimination the West Bengal authorities appointed him because the secretary of the knowledge and know-how division.
Vivek Sahay has been appointed as the brand new director normal of police of West Bengal.
The instructions from the Election Fee got here after it introduced the schedule for the Lok Sabha polls on Saturday. The orders from the polling physique are mentioned to be a part of its efforts to keep up a level-playing discipline for the electoral course of.
On March 16, the Election Fee introduced that the 2024 Lok Sabha elections will probably be held in seven phases from April 19 to June 1. The outcomes will probably be introduced on June 4.
The ballot physique had earlier directed the state governments to switch officers who’ve been working in reference to the upcoming elections, who’ve accomplished a time period of three years of their publish or are working of their dwelling districts, reported PTI.
The Election Fee notably expressed its displeasure to Maharashtra’s chief secretary because the state authorities is but to order the long-standing transfers of some municipal commissioners and extra and deputy municipal commissioners.
The Maharashtra authorities had been requested by the ballot physique in February to switch Brihanmumbai Municipal Company chief Iqbal Singh Chahal and report again to it by Monday.
Chahal, an Indian Administrative Service officer from the 1989 batch of the Maharashtra cadre, is the state-appointed administrator of Mumbai’s civic physique. The elections for the Brihanmumbai Municipal Company have been due for over two years.