Top election official meets A.P. Governor
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A.P. SEC provides ‘confidential report’.
Andhra Pradesh State Election Commissioner Nimmagadda Ramesh Kumar met Governor Biswa Bushan Harichandan on Tuesday to apprise him of the latest developments.
On Monday, the High Court stayed the gram panchayat ballot schedule introduced by the SEC, within the wake of a authorities plea. The State had opposed the transfer to conduct polls in February in view of the pandemic and vaccination drive.
According to info, in a one-on-one assembly, Mr. Ramesh gave a “confidential report” to the Governor. The Commission didn’t reveal the main points of the assembly.
In one other growth, Commission Secretary Vani Mohan was relieved from responsibility and requested to report back to the State authorities. Commission’s Joint Director G.V. Sai Prasad was already suspended after he went on depart on the essential time when the Commission introduced the native physique polls. Mr. Sai Prasad, the senior-most functionary after the Secretary and vested with the administration duties of the Commission, positioned a depart letter for a month and abandoned his station.
The dialogue factors with Governor, sources say, embrace the SEC Secretary’s function within the mass depart utilized by the Commission’s employees. A bundle of depart purposes had been submitted to the Commission lately. All the purposes, which had been in a proforma format, had been written “due to coercion”.
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