Chandigarh: Stepping in and making its authority felt, the Election Commission of India not only declared the Prakash Singh Badal government decision to abolish octroi on diesel and petrol null and void but also ordered the transfer of four deputy commissioners and 5 senior police officers.
Chief electoral officer Punjab, Kusumjit Sidhu said here today that CS Talwar had been posted as DC Mansa, B Purusharth as DC Moga, V Zade as DC Barnala and Paramjit Singh as DC Kapurthala.
She also stated that HK Bansal had been posted as SSP Muktsar, Dhanpreet Kaur as SSP Barnala, Dinesh Pratap Singh as SSP Patiala, Inder Singh as SSP Moga, Pradeep Kumar Yadav as SSP Mansa and Gautam Singhal as SP headquarters at Patiala.
Besides these transfers another IAS officer and 8 Punjab Civil Service officers have also been transferred.
With announcement of elections, code of conduct has come into effect and all election candidates have been asked to open new bank accounts for maintaining poll expenditures.
The state goes to the poll on Jan 30.
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