The Bengal government on Friday shifted two district police chiefs, a day after the full bench of the Election Commission had purportedly recommended their transfer to keep them away from the Assembly poll process.

Birbhum superintendent of police Shyam Singh and Purulia SP S. Selvamurugan were transferred to the traffic department and the state CID, respectively. In their new postings, they won’t have any direct involvement in the polls.

Meeraj Khalid, who was posted as deputy commissioner (central) in Calcutta police, has replaced Singh as the new SP Birbhum. Biswajit Mahato, who was deputy commissioner in Asansol-Durgapur police commissionerate, has been made the Purulia SP.

Both Singh and Selvamurugan had been shifted out of their chairs by the EC before the 2019 Lok Sabha polls also.

They were shifted amid allegations of bias towards the Trinamul Congress.

Singh was posted as SP Birbhum in 2019, while Selvamurugan was SP Diamond Harbour. Both were reinstated in their posts by the state government after the poll results had been declared.

Sources said the Election Commission had also recommended the transfer of at least one IAS officer holding a key post in the state administration.