CEO writes to EC seeking action against Kempaiah
Bengaluru: Taking note of Kempaiah, adviser to Home Minister, continuing to perform his duties, the office of the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) here has written to the Election Commission (EC) seeking action.
According to sources in the CEO’s office, election officials here are awaiting instructions from EC to proceed further on the issue. “Once we hear from the commission, it will be communicated to the Chief Secretary as well as the district election officer, who will have to initiate appropriate action.”
According to a TH report, after the model code of conduct came into force, the government appointed advisers and political secretaries who do not have any role. Sources also said that it had come to their notice that Mr. Kempaiah had worked after the code of conduct came into force.
Meanwhile, to assess the election preparedness of the machinery in the State, Chief Election Commissioner O.P. Rawat is visiting the State for three days from Wednesday. He will be joined by Election Commissioners Ashok Lavasa and Sunil Arora. A press note said the two top functionaries of the EC will be meeting CEO Sanjiv Kumar, Chief Secretary Ratna Prabha and Director-General and Inspector-General of Police Neelamani Raju, besides a host of officials involved in the election process and leaders of political parties.
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Pakistan reports two more polio cases; Total tally now 52
ISLAMABAD: At least two more cases of poliovirus were reported in Pakistan, taking the number of infections to 52 so far this year, a report said on Friday.
“The Regional Reference Laboratory for Polio Eradication at the National Institute of Health has confirmed the detection of two more wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) cases in Pakistan," an official statement said.
The fresh infections — a boy and a girl — were reported from the Dera Ismail Khan district of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province.
“Genetic sequencing of the samples collected from the children is underway," the statement read. Dera Ismail Khan, one of the seven polio-endemic districts of southern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, has reported five polio cases so far this year.
Of the 52 cases in the country this year, 24 are from Balochistan, 13 from Sindh, 13 from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and one each from Punjab and Islamabad.
There is no cure for polio. Only multiple doses of the oral polio vaccine and completion of the routine vaccination schedule for all children under the age of five can keep them protected.
