19 October 2026
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ECI Appoints 34 IAS and 16 IPS Officers of Punjab For Upcoming Polls in 4 States and 1 UT

Election Commission of India appointed 34 IAS and 16 IPS of Punjab as observers for upcoming election in Assam, Kerala, TN, WB and Puducherry.
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With the upcoming polls in Assam, Kerala, West Bengal, Tamil Nadu and Puducherry, the Election Commission of India (ECI) has appointed 34 IAS from Punjab as general observers and 16 IPS officers as police observers.

As per what Chief Electoral Officer Punjab (CEO) Dr S Karuna Raju said, a video conference will be held between the ECI and the observers selected for the poll-bounded states and UT.

The IAS officers who have been selected for the process includes, Vijay Kumar Janjua, Anurag Agarwal, Raji P Shrivastava, Sarvjit Singh, Anurag Verma, Kakumanu Siva Prasad, Dhirendra Kumar Tiwari, Hussan Lal, Seema Jain, Raj Kamal Chaudhuri, Veerendra Kumar Meena, Vikas Garg, Ajoy Sharma, Nilkanth S Avhad, Kumar Rahul, Rahul Tewari, Dr Vijay Namdeorao Zade, Rajat Agarwal, Manvesh Singh Sidhu, Tanu Kashyap, Daljit Singh Mangat, Sibin Chakkyadath, Pradeep Kumar Aggarwal, Ravi Bhagat, Manjit Singh Brar, Kanwal Preet Brar, Mohammad Tayyab, Bhupinder Singh, Parveen Kumar Thind, Amit Kumar, Puneet Goyal, Mohammad Ishfaq, Bhupinder Pal Singh, Kumar Saurabh Raj, B Srinivasan, Bhupinder Singh II, Keshav Hingonia and Vineet Kumar.

The 16 IPS officers includes Barjinder Kumar Uppal, Kuldeep Singh, Anita Punj, B Chandra Sckhar, Amardeep Singh Rai, Ram Singh, Gollapalli Nageswara Rao, Gautam Cheema, MF Farooqui, Vibhu Raj, Lakshmi Kant Yadav, Arun Pal Singh, Shive Kumar Verma and Babu Lal Meena.

The polls in the four states and one UT are scheduled from 27 March till the end of 29 April and the counting for the same will be held on 2 May.


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