EC transfers UP DGP, Home Secretary

The Election Commission tonight transferred Uttar Pradesh DGP Brij Lal and Principal Secretary (Home) Kunwar Fateh Bahadur after major opposition parties accused the two officials of working as "agents" of ruling BSP.

BSP slammed the EC decision alleging the removal of Lal and Bahadur would "shatter the sense of security among Dalits and the downtrodden that they would be able to exercise their franchise in a free and fair manner in the coming assembly elections.

"Principal Secretary (Home) Kunwar Fateh Bahadur and DGP Brij Lal have been transferred from their respective posts," official sources said here.

Accusing the officials of working as the agents of ruling BSP almost all the major opposition parties, including Congress, BJP and SP, urged the Commission to transfer the two officials.