Two days after the schedule for the forthcoming elections to the Telangana Legislative Assembly has been announced, the Election Commission has cracked its whip on the administration transferring several District Collectors and Superintendents of Police.
Accordingly, the poll panel has ordered transfer of Collectors of four districts who are District Election Officers and SPs of several districts with immediate effect. This is in addition to transfer of Police Commissioners of Hyderabad (C.V. Anand), Warangal (V. Ranganath) and Nizamabad (V. Satyanarayana).
The Election Commission, according to sources in the Chief Electoral Officer’s office, said in no uncertain terms that it would apply “zero tolerance tolerance towards officials with partisan attitude”. The decision was taken after the interaction with the officials on more than one occasion, including the recent visit of the team headed by the Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar when their performance was found reportedly to be not up to the mark.
