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Bengal Assembly Polls 2021: EC shunts five officials, timing raises brows

CM Mamata Banerjee said the election panel was playing into the hands of the BJP

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Published 26.03.21, 01:17 AM

The Election Commission on Thursday transferred five senior IAS and IPS officers, including the district magistrate of Jhargram and the ADG of the Western Zone.

Thirty Assembly segments, including Jhargram, and many from the Western Zone will vote on Saturday.

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The EC shunted the SPs of Diamond Harbour and Cooch Behar, and divisional commissioner (South) of city police.

The EC ordered Joyoshi Dasgupta, a 2010-batch IAS officer, would replace Ayesha Rani as the Jhargram DM, and Rajesh Kumar, a 1990-batch IPS officer, would replace Sanjay Singh as the ADG of Western Zone.

Diamond Harbour SP Avijit Banerji would be replaced by Arijit Sinha, a 2011-batch IPS officer. Cooch Behar SP K. Kannan would be replaced by Debashish Dhar, a 2010-batch IPS officer. The divisional commissioner of South Calcutta, Sudhir Neelkantha, would be replaced by Akash Magharia, a 2009-batch IPS officer.

Mamata Banerjee Jhargram Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Mamata Banerjee Government Trinamul Congress (TMC) Election Commission Of India (ECI) West Bengal Assembly Elections 2021
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