After West Bengal, it is now the turn of Gujarat to free 45 IAS and IPS officers to serve as poll observers for the five poll-bound states—West Bengal, Assam, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, and Puducherry. The Election Commission of India (ECI) has named 35 IAS and 10 IPS officers from the state to serve as election observers for these five states going to the assembly polls. The training of these selected officials will begin in the first week of February. The state government will now have to make arrangements for additional charge while these officers are away.
Among the IAS officers selected for poll duties are Arti Kanwar, Sandeep Kumar, Roopwant Singh, Swaroop P, Pravin Solanki, Avantika Singh Aulakh, Rakesh Shankar, Raj Kumar Beniwal, Rajesh Manjhu, Rajendra Kumar, Rahul Gupta, P Bharathi, Ranjeet Kumar J, Harshad Patel, Alok Pandey, Jenu Devan, Sandip Sagale, Dilip Rana, Ardra Agarwal, Ranjit Kumar Singh, Dhaval Patel, Mahesh Patel, M Nagarajan, Praveena D K, Kuldeep Arya, Vijay Kharadi, Ratankanvar Gadhavicharan, Ajay Prakash, D D Jadeja, Amit Arora, Harshit Gosavi, Stuti Charan, Ashish Kumar, Prabhav Joshi and Neha Kumari.
As per govt sources, the IPS officers selected for election duties include A G Chauhan, Bipin Ahire, P L Mal, Makrand Chauhan, Vishal Vaghela, Deepak Meghani, Nirlipt Rai, Chaitanya Mandlik, Hitesh Joysar, and Mayur Patil. Sources said the Gujarat govt has written to officers, asking them to report to the ECI.
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