EC Defers IAS Officer's Transfer After Uproar Over Blocking Vadra's Bike Rally

In a flip-flop, the Election Commission first transferred from Amethi a poll observer who had taken on Priyanka Gandhi’s husband Robert Vadra, then put it on hold and finally scrapped it within 24 hours, opting for another IAS officer in his place as District Collector of South Goa.

The Amethi poll observer Pawan Kumar Sain, an IAS officer of the 2005 batch of Goa state cadre, stirred a controversy yesterday by halting Vadra’s convoy for alleged violation of model code and recommended an FIR against the Amethi Congress nominee for whom he was campaigning.

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