Election Commission orders transfer of Andhra DGP

The Election Commission on Wednesday ordered the transfer of Andhra Pradesh DGP S S P Yadav who praised Chief Minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy during an official visit to Kurnool and Mahbubnagar. THE Election Commission on Wednesday ordered the transfer of AndhraPradesh DGP SSP Yadav who had reportedly praised Chief Minister Y S Rajsekhara Reddy during an official tour on March 8 and 9 to Kurnool and Mahbubnagar districts. The EC also sought a panel of names from the state Government by Friday for Yadav’s replacement,an EC spokesperson said.Yadav is at present on a week long tour to Singapore to attend a conference on home land security.

State Chief Electoral Officer I V Subba Rao had earlier sought an explanation from the DGP after opposition parties complained that he had praised the CM’s initiatives to strengthen the police force at a meeting of police officers of Kurnool district.

Opposition parties had alleged that he had violated the model code of conduct by speaking in favour of the ruling party and government at a meeting that was actually held to educate police officers on the model code for elections.

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Naidu to approach Centre on Y S Rajashekhar Reddy’s ‘Satyam route of corruption’

After last week’s unruly scenes in the Andhra Pradesh Assembly, a battery of state Opposition leaders, led by former chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu, arrived in New Delhi armed with thick bound volumes containing allegations against Chief Minister Y S Rajashekhar Reddy for distribution to the media. Naidu began his tirade against his successor in a crowded press conference where an audio-visual presentation was arranged as an expose on the “Raja of corruption”. Eventually, a technical snag left the presentation bereft of its visual element and only a loud commentary remained to go through the alleged corporate scams involving YSR and his family.

“If Satyam is the largest corporate scam in the country, the acts of the CM make his’ the largest political scam. Ramajingam Raju has confessed to his misdeeds and gone to jail and now it is the turn of the CM to do so,” Naidu said. After the press meet, Naidu said he and leaders of the TDP, TRS, CPI, CPI(M) will meet the President and the Prime Minister to “expose the manner in which the CM has floated front companies with jet speed and violated a host of Central laws”.

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