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Election officer Manoj Aggarwal, who conducted SIR in West Bengal, has been appointed as the new Chief Secretary of Bengal in the Suvendu government.
Special Intensive Revision (SIR) was conducted in the voter list in Bengal before the assembly elections under the supervision of West Bengal cadre officer Manoj Aggarwal. Under which names of about 91 lakh voters were removed from the voter list.
Apart from this, retired IAS officer Subrata Gupta has also been included as advisor to the Chief Minister. Subrata was appointed Observer during SIR in Bengal. These appointments reflect open collusion and nexus between the Election Commission and the BJP.
Congress said- Election Commission cleverly benefited BJP
Congress General Secretary Jairam Ramesh wrote on social media, “These appointments reflect open collusion and nexus between ECI and BJP.” Now no effort is being made to hide this collusion.
He alleged that these appointments were proof that the ECI was not impartial and acted solely to benefit the BJP.
Ramesh said, 27 lakh people were stopped from voting during the elections. ECI carried out this work very cleverly to give electoral advantage to BJP.
TMC said – no one still believes that the elections were fair
TMC leader Saket Gokhale described the move as ‘extremely shameless’. Whereas TMC MP Derek O’Brien sarcastically called it a ‘coincidence’. In his post on
Trinamool Rajya Sabha MP Sagarika Ghosh posted on
Know about the two officers appointed in the Bengal government
Manoj Aggarwal is a 1990 batch IAS officer of West Bengal cadre. He is also an alumnus of IIT Kanpur. He will replace the current Chief Secretary Dushyant Nariyala. However, Agarwal’s initial tenure will be short. He is going to retire in July.
Retired 1990 batch IAS officer Subrata Gupta worked as an observer for the SIR process before the elections. On 9 May, he was appointed advisor to Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari. During the elections, Trinamool had filed complaints against these two officials regarding the SIR process and conduct of the elections.
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