Ex-Kerala Chief Secretary Claims Gyanesh Kumar Offered Him BJP Ticket In 2016

Former Kerala Chief Secretary Jiji Thomson has alleged that Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, while serving as an IAS officer, asked him whether he was interested in contesting the 2019 Lok Sabha election as a BJP candidate from Pathanamthitta in the state.Thomson made the claim on local media as the Election Commission and Gyanesh Kumar face massive controversy over the handling of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls and allegations of differences within the three-member poll panel. Thomson's account concerns a conversation he claims took place during a flight to Delhi in 2016, when he was serving as Kerala's Chief Secretary and Kumar was a Kerala-cadre IAS officer."I was serving as the Kerala Chief Secretary then. We were together on a flight.