KOLKATA: Ahead of the remaining three phases of polling in West Bengal, the Election Commission on Monday transferred a few top police officers. Nagendra Nath Tripathi, a 2009-batch IPS officer who was tasked to supervise the April 1 polls in Nandigram, has been asked to take over as Birbhum police chief. In the same order, the EC replaced Asansol-Durgapur police commissioner Sukesh Jain and East Burdwan SP Bhaskar Mukherji.
TMC reacted sharply to the IPS transfers. The party’s Rajya Sabha member Derek O’Brien said the poll panel was “extremely compromised” and tweeted: “EC transfers 4 officers. 48 hours before the poll and almost 45 days after the Model (Modi) Code of Conduct has come into effect.” He further wrote: “NN Tripathi, same person who was made in-charge of Nandigram, now shifted to Birbhum. Was the state government consulted? Of course not!”
The Election Commission of India on Monday transferred four IPS officers in the districts where Assembly polls would be held in the next three phases and the Trinamul Congress accused the poll panel of acting at the behest of the BJP and transferring officers without consulting the state government.
In an order issued by EC secretary Arvind Anand, the superintendents of police of Birbhum and East Burdwan were transferred, along with the Asansol-Durgapur commissioner of police and the Bolpur subdivisional police officer.
The EC has posted Ajeet Kumar Singh as the SP of
East Burdwan in place of Bhaskar Mukherji, while Nagendra Nath Tripathi has been appointed as the SP of Birbhum in place of Miraj Khalid.
EC transfers four police officers in West Bengal
By IANS |
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Kolkata, April 19 : Three days before the sixth phase of the West Bengal Assembly polls, the Election Commission transferred the Superintendents of Police of East Burdwan and Birbhum districts, and the Commissioner of Police of Asansol-Durgapur.
The SDPO of Bolepur in Birbhum district was also removed.
The poll panel also announced the date of the repoll in two constituencies following the death of the candidates.
In an order, the poll panel removed Bhaskar Mukherji as Superintendent of Police of East Burdwan and replaced him with Ajeet Kumar Singh. The district is supposed to go for the election in the sixth phase on April 22.