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The Election Commission of India (ECI) connected Tuesday (March 17, 2026) ordered the transportation of 19 elder constabulary officers, including 2 ADGs, successful different reshuffle up of the Assembly elections successful the state.
Assembly Elections 2026, highlights connected March 17, 2026
IPS serviceman Rajesh Kumar Singh was appointed the caller Additional Director General (ADG) of South Bengal, portion K. Jayaraman was named the ADG of North Bengal. Both belonged to the 1997 batch, according to a statement.
New Commissioners of Police (CP) were appointed for Asansol-Durgapur, Howrah, Barrackpore and Chandannagar.
Pranav Kumar was appointed the caller CP of Asansol-Durgapur successful Paschim Bardhaman; Akhilesh Kumar Chaturvedi was named the CP of Howrah; Amit Kumar Singh was named the caller CP of Barrackpore successful North 24 Parganas; and Sunil Kumar Yadav was appointed the CP of Chandannagar successful Hooghly district.
Superintendents of 12 districts were besides changed successful the latest reshuffle.
Puspa was appointed SP of Barasat, Jaspreet Singh of Cooch Behar, Surya Pratap Yadav of Birbhum, Kumar Sunny Rai of Hooghly Rural, Ishani Paul of Diamond Harbour, Sachin of Murshidabad, Alakananda Bhowal of Basirhat, Anupam Singh of Malda, Anshuman Saha of Purba Medinipur and Surinder Singh of Jangipur.
Rakesh Singh was posted arsenic the caller SP of Islampur, and Papiya Sultana arsenic SP of Paschim Medinipur.
Y.S. Jagannathrao was made the DCP (Central) of Kolkata Police.
“The Election Commission is committed to holding transparent, escaped of fear, violence-free and inducement-free elections,” an authoritative said.
The EC directed contiguous implementation of the bid and sought compliance by 11 a.m. connected March 18, barring transferred officers from canvass duty, according to the statement.
After the canvass dates were announced connected Sunday (March 15), the ECI transferred Chief Secretary Nandini Chakravorty and Home Secretary Jagdish Prasad Meena. It subsequently removed DGP Peeyush Pandey and Kolkata CP Supratim Sarkar.
The elections to the 294-member West Bengal Assembly volition beryllium held successful 2 phases, connected April 23 and 29. Votes volition beryllium counted connected May 4.
