Bureaucrats transferred in poll-bound MP

Bhopal, Oct 24 (UNI) A day after a Madhya Pradesh assembly poll preparations review meeting in the presence of Chief Election Commissioner N Gopalaswamy here, the state government transferred three district collectors, an inspector-general (IG) of police and two superintendents today.

Official sources said that the Jabalpur-based Madhya Pradesh Eastern Region Power Distribution Company's Controller (Finance) M K Agrawal was made Collector, Morena while Jabalpur's Municipal Commissioner Sukhveer Singh became Collector, Satna and Deputy Secretary (Finance) Amit Rathore was shifted as Collector, Khargone.

Ujjain's IG M P Dwivedi was replaced by Police Housing Board Managing Director Pawan Jain, Indore's SP R K Chaudhry by Mr Sanjeev Sharma and Sagar's SP Hari Singh Yadav by Mr Yogesh Chaudhry.

It is believed that Mr R K Gupta, Mr Vijay Anand Kureel and Dr E Ramesh Kumar -- who were collectors at Morena, Satna and Khargone respectively -- and the others were transferred following election-linked complaints.

Cases of irregularities in the voters' list surfaced in Morena district.

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