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Naidu seeks action against DGP

Writes to CEC; says re-posting of Yadav as DGP has sent a wrong signal

‘DGP has set an unhealthy precedent of questioning the authority of the EC’
‘EC recommended Yadav’s transfer as he could not be trusted to conduct a free and fair poll’

HYDERABAD: Telugu Desam president N. Chandrababu Naidu has urged the Chief Election Commissioner to order disciplinary action against Director-General of Police S.S.P. Yadav and reverse all actions taken by the State in re-posting those officers who were transferred, at the instance of the Commission.

In a seven-page letter to the CEC on Saturday, he said Mr. Yadav had, in contravention of the conduct rules, addressed letters to the Chief Electoral Officer demanding reasons for his transfer during the recent elections.

Emboldened by his re-posting as DGP, he had set an unhealthy precedent of questioning the authority of the Election Commission, which recommended his transfer, “as he could not be trusted to conduct a free and fair poll with his known proclivities in favour of the ruling party and the Chief Minister,” the letter stated.

Mr. Naidu said Mr. Yadav’s re-posting had sent a wrong signal to entire bureaucracy and police to act in favour of the ruling establishment. The Chief Minister and the Chief Secretary seem to create a deliberate impression that it was a quarrel between two officers and nothing more.

YSR support

“We, as a responsible opposition party, are of the opinion that Mr. Yadav has deliberately and with full support of the Chief Minister arrogated to himself the power and authority to question the decisions and constitutional autonomy of the Election Commission,” he said. Mr. Naidu stated that a veritable war was allowed to be waged by the DGP on a constitutional body like the Election Commission. He claimed that Dr. Reddy was ‘totally indifferent to these unhealthy developments’.

Violation

The TDP chief contended that A.K. Mohanty’s transfer and re-appointment of Mr. Yadav was a violation of a Supreme Court directive issued in connection with the reforms in the Police Department.

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