Lok Sabha elections 2024: The Election Commission of India (ECI) made a decisive transfer towards upholding the ideas of free, honest, and clear elections by issuing orders for the removing of six Home Secretaries in six states particularly Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand, Himachal Pradesh, and Uttarakhand. Additionally, the ballot panel directed the switch of West Bengal’s Director General of Police, the state’s chief cop.
The re-shuffle, a standard follow by the Election Commission before main polls, additionally entails the switch of the Secretary of the General Administrative Department in Mizoram and Himachal Pradesh.
BMC Commissioner eliminated
The Election Commission, led by Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar, has ordered the removing of Brihanmumbai Municipal Commissioner Iqbal Singh Chahal, together with extra commissioners and deputy commissioners, simply days after saying the schedule for the Lok Sabha elections.
The Election Commission has instructed all state governments to switch officers concerned in election-related duties who’ve accomplished three years or are stationed of their dwelling districts.
Notably, Maharashtra had didn’t adjust to the Election Commission’s instructions relating to the removing of a number of municipal commissioners, in addition to extra and deputy municipal commissioners.
While conveying displeasure to the state chief secretary, the fee directed the switch of BMC and the extra and deputy commissioners with the route to report by 6 pm on Monday.
Furthermore, the chief secretary was mandated to switch all equally positioned municipal commissioners, in addition to extra or deputy municipal commissioners, throughout different companies in Maharashtra.
These actions type half of the fee’s endeavors to uphold a level-playing discipline and safeguard the integrity of the electoral course of, a precedence reiterated by Chief Election Commissioner Kumar on quite a few events.
Lok Sabha elections 2024
The Lok Sabha elections shall be held in seven phases starting from April 19 and outcomes shall be introduced on June 4, Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar stated on Saturday (March 16).
The different phases shall be on April 26, May 7, May 13, May 20, May 25 and June 1. Assembly elections in Arunachal Pradesh and Sikkim shall be held on April 19, and in Andhra Pradesh on May 13. Elections to Odisha meeting shall be held in 4 phases on May 13, May 20, May 25 and June 1. Bypolls can even be held for 26 meeting constituencies, Kumar stated at a press convention flanked by two new Election Commissioners Gyanesh Kumar and Sukhbir Singh Sandhu. The counting of votes shall be held on June 4.
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