Chennai, April 8 -- Taking the Election Commission of India (ECI) head on, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister and DMK President MK Stalin on Wednesday evening condemned the transfer of Chief Secretary N Muruganandam in the midst of Assembly elections and described it as a one-sided colourable exercise which is a political overreach as well as height of arrogance under the instigation of the BJP.
The poll watchdog had replaced Muruganandam with M Saikumar, a 1990 batch officer who was Personal Secretary to former Chief Minister and AIADMK General Secretary Edappadi K Palaniswami (EPS), who was now heading the NDA for the April 23 polls.
Also shunted out was Davidson Devasirvatham, DGP Armed Reserve and Vigilance. He has been replaced by Sandeep Mit...