02-04-2009, 04:28 AM
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Rahul Sarin is frontrunner for EC post
pioneer.com
Akhilesh Suman | New Delhi
<b>Senior IAS officer Rahul Sarin may be picked up by the Government to fill up the vacancy in the Election Commission when Chief Election Commissioner N Gopalaswami demits office on April 20</b>.
<b>Sarin is a 1974 batch </b>officer of Bihar cadre. He is posted as Secretary in the Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, which is under direct <b>control of the Prime Minister's Office. </b>
Sources in the Government told The Pioneer that Sarin's name is at the top of the list of probables.
Before being shifted to the DoPT in September 2008, Sarin served as Secretary in the Food Processing Ministry. He also held the crucial post of Additional Secretary and Special Secretary in Administrative Reforms Commission for two years beginning 2006.
Sarin is to retire in August 2009 and if selected for the post, he would be given extension on the lines of N Gopalaswami and Navin Chawla, who also joined as ECs when they were on the verge of retirement.
Law Secretary TK Vishwanathan's name is also doing the rounds. A 1968 batch Indian Legal Services officer, he is understood to enjoy the confidence of Law Minister Hansraj Bhardwaj.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Get your own stooges and do fraud by voting machines. Even before election I can say Democracy is dead in India. It is just a Goons Raj.
pioneer.com
Akhilesh Suman | New Delhi
<b>Senior IAS officer Rahul Sarin may be picked up by the Government to fill up the vacancy in the Election Commission when Chief Election Commissioner N Gopalaswami demits office on April 20</b>.
<b>Sarin is a 1974 batch </b>officer of Bihar cadre. He is posted as Secretary in the Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, which is under direct <b>control of the Prime Minister's Office. </b>
Sources in the Government told The Pioneer that Sarin's name is at the top of the list of probables.
Before being shifted to the DoPT in September 2008, Sarin served as Secretary in the Food Processing Ministry. He also held the crucial post of Additional Secretary and Special Secretary in Administrative Reforms Commission for two years beginning 2006.
Sarin is to retire in August 2009 and if selected for the post, he would be given extension on the lines of N Gopalaswami and Navin Chawla, who also joined as ECs when they were on the verge of retirement.
Law Secretary TK Vishwanathan's name is also doing the rounds. A 1968 batch Indian Legal Services officer, he is understood to enjoy the confidence of Law Minister Hansraj Bhardwaj.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Get your own stooges and do fraud by voting machines. Even before election I can say Democracy is dead in India. It is just a Goons Raj.