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| Search on for new poll chief | | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | Dec 26
With preparations taking off for the forthcoming assembly elections, the state government has launched a search for the electoral chief to manage the arduous affairs of electioneering process.
It is reliably learnt that the incumbent Chief Election Officer BR Sharma has expressed his “hesitation” in leading the major electoral exercise due next year. Sharma had taken over as Chief Election Officer of Jammu and Kashmir in early 2006 from Dr Pawan Kotwal who is presently Secretary in the Chief Minister’s Office.
During Sharma’s tenure as Chief Election Officer no major election exercise took place in Jammu and Kashmir. He, however, has to his credit managing by-elections to three assembly constituencies last year including the prestigious by-poll in Bhaderwah assembly segment from where the Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad had contested. The latest election Sharma managed was the by-poll in Poonch assembly constituency.
Sources told EARLY TIMES here today that the government was considering the options of Pramod Jain or Sadanand V Bhave. Jain is presently Commissioner Secretary in the Higher Education Department and Bhave is Resident Commissioner in New Delhi.
Jain is credited with successful conduct of assembly elections on 2002. Though 2002 assembly elections had assumed an issue of prestige for the country, therefore the Election Commission of India was keenly focused on the exercise but Jain is widely credited for his meticulous handling of the entire affair. He also has to his credit a comprehensive book on Jammu and Kashmir elections 2002 which provide even minutest data of all elections held so far in the state. |
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