Cabinet secretariat merely acknowledged complaint of Election Commissioners': RTI
The Indian Cabinet Secretariat has formally acknowledged a complaint from Election Commissioners regarding unauthorized work reallocation within the commission. The secretariat declined to intervene, citing the constitutional independence of the Election Commission.
Why it matters
The dispute highlights internal governance tensions within a critical constitutional body responsible for overseeing democratic processes in India.
NEW DELHI: After election commissioners S S Sandhu and Vivek Joshi wrote to cabinet secretary TV Somanathan in July objecting to the revised allocation of work among senior commission officers by senior deputy Election Commissioner (DEC) Maneesh Garg without EC approval, the secretariat merely sent them an acknowledgement with a copy to CEC Gyanesh Kumar for information, an RTI reply has revealed.The senior officers among whom the work was reallocated by Garg, who was only filling in for DEC (administration) Bhanu Prakash Yeturu while he was on leave, included Seema Khanna, who was brought in as head of the IT division of EC.
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