Cabinet Secretariat did not act on complaints against senior EC officer, RTI reveals

The Cabinet Secretariat took no action on complaints by Election Commissioners Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Vivek Joshi against senior poll officer Maneesh Garg, according to an RTI. The documents show officials considered the letters individual communications, not formal complaints from the Election Commission as a whole, and said that intervention could amount to executive interference.

New Delhi: The Cabinet Secretariat did not act on separate complaints filed by two Election Commissioners against a senior officer of the Election Commission of India (ECI), stating that the letters were sent in their “individual capacity” and did not represent an official communication from the poll body as a whole.

Documents released under the Right to Information (RTI) Act show that Election Commissioners Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Vivek Joshi wrote to Cabinet Secretary T V Somanathan on July 29, 2026, raising concerns about the........

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