The Trinamool Congress on March 21 alleged that the transfer of four district magistrates in West Bengal by the EC ahead of the Lok Sabha elections vindicates its stand that the BJP was using the poll panel after facing people’s rejection in the previous State elections.
The EC on March 21 shunted out non-cadre district magistrates and police superintendents of several states on grounds that the posts were meant for IAS and IPS officers respectively. The list included DMs of Purba Medinipur, Jhargram, Purba Bardhaman and Birbhum districts in West Bengal.
Previously, on March 19, the poll panel appointed Sanjoy Mukherjee as the State’s Director General of Police after removing the earlier appointee Vivek Sahay in less than 24 hours. The West Bengal government had appointed Sahay to that post following an EC direction, after transferring the state’s top cop Rajiv Kumar to a “non-election” related post.
