State Congress president Kamal Nath has written a strong worded letter to the chief election commissioner Sunil Arora protesting against the state chief electoral officer Veera Rana. He has also complained against other govt officials for working in BJP’s favour. Kamal Nath wrote which read: “The whole administration and particularly the state police officials are violating CEC guidelines and openly working for BJP candidates,”. Nath wrote that nine deputy collectors have been transferred on October 23 and all in the poll bound districts. He has attached a list of deputy collectors and deputy SPs who have been posted in Gwalior, Morena, Sagar, Guna districts where elections are to be held on November 3.
Nath said TI and sub-division level officers are openly intimidating Congress workers and pressurising workers to support BJP. Arrest warrants have been issued against relatives of Aidal Singh Kansana in Morena but they have not been arrested. They have broken vehicles of Congress workers, forcibly entered their houses and threatened them. No action has been taken, despite complaints. Citing examples from Mungaoli, Dinara and Jaura, Nath said no action has been taken against police inspectors posted in these areas despite several complaints.
Complaint against returning officers of Ashok Nagar and Anuppur have been filed with evidences but no action has been taken so far. He has urged CEC to remove them immediately. Nath also raised issue pertaining to postal ballots for Covid suspects and patients. He has charged CEO with not giving them the record of 37,000 applicants who were given facility of postal ballots - despite clear instructions from the CEC. “CEO MP categorically said CEC has not given them permission to give list of voters who have been given the permission to cast postal ballots,” charged Nath. Even the election observers appointed by CEC are unaware of list of those voters.
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