Bengal Governor 'Returns' State Election Commissioner's Joining Letter
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This comes after Rajiv Sinha failed to meet CV Ananda Bose when he was summoned for an explanation over the violence and clashes during nomination filing for the panchayat poll earlier this month.
West Bengal Governor CV Ananda Bose has refused to accept the joining report of State Election Commissioner Rajiv Sinha. The position of West Bengal state Election Commissioner is becoming increasingly untenable. Apart from being transparently partisan in favour of the ruling dispensation, he has mocked repeated judicial verdicts on the conduct of panchayat elections. The Governor erred in…
This comes hours after Rajiv Sinha failed to meet CV Ananda Bose when he was summoned for an explanation over the violence and clashes during nomination filing for the panchayat poll earlier this month, the source said.
Rajiv Sinha, who was also called by the Governor also on June 17 at Raj Bhavan, did not appear, stating that he was preoccupied with scrutiny of the nominations for the upcoming panchayat polls.
Governor Bose had approved Rajiv Sinha's appointment after the state government proposed his name earlier this month. Rajiv Sinha served as West Bengal's Chief Secretary from September 2019 to September 2020.
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