EC gets rid of Bengal ADG day after pronouncing ballot dates

An afternoon after pronouncing the dates for meeting polls in West Bengal, the Election Fee on Saturday got rid of Further Director Normal of Police (Legislation and order) Jawed Shamim and taken in Jag Mohan in his position, an legit order mentioned.

Shamim, a 1995-batch IPS officer, will exchange Mohan because the DG Hearth Services and products within the rank of ADG, the executive electoral officer (CEO) of the state mentioned within the order.

The shuffle got here hours after a BJP delegation, which integrated MPs Swapan Dasgupta and Arjun Singh, met CEO Ariz Aftab and instructed him to take away “biased” cops from election responsibility.

The Mamata Banerjee govt had made Shamim, who used to be Particular Commissioner of Police (II) of the Kolkata Police, the state ADG (Legislation and order) previous this month forward of the meeting polls.

Elections to the West Bengal meeting shall be held in 8 stages, up from seven remaining time. The primary and remaining segment of polling shall be hung on March 27 and April 29 respectively. Votes shall be counted on Might 2.

At the higher choice of stages within the state, Leader Election Commissioner Sunil Arora on Friday mentioned when the EC assesses the legislation and order scenario, the evaluate is according to a number of components and it additionally has to bear in mind costs and counter-charges by means of political events.

“The way in which the police management is functioning in West Bengal, it’s glaring that honest polling isn’t conceivable right here. We will identify a couple of cops who’re posted within the town. In the event that they proceed of their posts, loose and honest elections don’t seem to be conceivable,” Dasgupta advised journalists after assembly the CEO.

He claimed that a number of requests to Kolkata Police Commissioner Soumen Mitra for a gathering on this connection fell on deaf ears.

“That’s why we got here to the fee these days,” the BJP MP added.

But even so being the Director Normal Hearth Services and products, Shamim will even hang the price of DG Civil Defence until additional understand, the CEO’s order mentioned.

Mohan, a 1991-batch IPS officer, can be the state police nodal officer.