Big decision of ec before voting in Punjab!!!
The election commission has removed the police commissioners of jalandhar and Ludhiana. Both the officers have been put on non-election duty. jalandhar police Commissioner IPS Swapan Sharma and ludhiana police Commissioner IPS kuldeep chahal have been transferred by the election Commission. This decision has been taken when the nomination process has been completed in punjab and voting is to be held on june 1. Let us tell you that only six months ago, Swapan Sharma had taken charge of the police Commissioner of Jalandhar. He is a 2009 batch IPS officer. Whereas kuldeep Singh chahal was made the police Commissioner of ludhiana in November. He is also a 2009 batch IPS officer. He had replaced Mandeep Singh Sidhu. chahal has also served as SSP of Chandigarh.
Election Commission said this in its letter
The information about who has been made the police Commissioner of jalandhar and ludhiana in place of these two officers has not been revealed yet. In the letter issued by the election commission of india to the Chief Secretary of punjab, it is written that IPS Swapan Sharma and IPS kuldeep Tahal are transferred from their present posts and appointed to non-election related posts with immediate effect.
There is competition between them on the seats of jalandhar and Ludhiana.
In both jalandhar and ludhiana, there will be a contest between the candidates of four big parties. In jalandhar, there is a contest between Charanjit Singh Channi of Congress, pawan kumar Tinu of Aam Aadmi Party, Mohinder Singh KP of Shiromani Akali Dal and Sushil Kumar Rinku of BJP. Whereas in ludhiana, Congress's amarinder singh Raja Wading, AAP's ashok Parashar Pappi, Shiromani Akali Dal's Ranjit Singh Dhillon and BJP's Ravneet Singh Bittu are in the fray.
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