The office of Chief Electoral Officer is still waiting for replies from state government on sensitive complaints including a dozen IAS and IPS officers. Reports related to complaints against the CM and CS too have not been forwarded to the EC. No replies have been filed in complaints related to violation of model code against chief minister Kamal Nath and chief secretary SR Mohanty as well.
Complaints have been lodged against several IAS officers and collectors but reports are pending in complaints related to about a dozen district collectors and other senior officers. IAS officials against whom the reports are pending include Rajnish Shrivastava, Amarpal Singh, Ajit Kumar, Malay Shrivastava, Shivam Sharma, Satyendra Singh, Rampal Singh Jadaun, Deepak Singh, Lalit Dahima, Vishesh Garphale, Bhaskar Lakhskar, Neeraj Mandloi, Basant Kurre and RK Jain.
Home department is yet to submit report in 9 cases that includes about half a dozen IPS officers. Reports have been sought in complaints against SM Afzal, Shashikant Shukla, Kumar Saurabh, Vijay Pratap Singh, Tilakraj Singh and Brijmohan Dwivedi.
General Administration Department (GAD) has been the biggest defaulter in not filing reply to the EC. There are overall 31 complaints in which the GAD hasn’t filed a reply. Next in line are Urban Administration Department (UAD) and Home department that haven’t replied to 9 complaints each related to their departments.
Overall six complaints remained unaddressed by the Revenue department while five complaints are from the Commercial Tax department that have not been replied. Three complaints related with Cooperative Department and two with Transport department have not been replied till date.
All these complaints relate to violation of model code besides accusations on some officers of working in favour of a particular party. Generally election commission gives two days to file reply but in these cases it has been over a week and more but no reports have been filed yet earning wrath of election commission.
