15 retired Bureaucrats appointed as Special Observers

As many as 15 retired bureaucrats have been appointed as Special Observer for Assembly polls. Accordingly, Manjit Singh, IAS (Retd.) (RJ: 88) and Somesh Goyal, IPS (Retd.) (HP: 84) will be respectively the Special General Observer for Goa; Pravir Krishna, IAS (retd) (MP: 87); Arun Kumar, IPS (Retd.) (UP:85); Rajesh Tuteja, Ex IRS(IT) (1987) will be the Special General, Special Police and Special Expenditure Observer respectively for Manipur. Vinod Zutshi, IAS (Retd.) (RJ: 82), Sh. Rajni Kant Mishra, IPS (Retd.) (UP:84) and Ms. Himalini Kashyap, Ex IRS(IT) (1985) will be the Special General Observer, Special Police Observer & Special Expenditure  Observer respectively for Punjab; Ram Mohan Mishra IAS, (Retd.) (AM: 87), Sh. Anil Kumar Sharma, IPS (Retd.) (PB:84) and Ms. Madhu Mahajan, Ex IRS(IT) (1982) will respectively be the Special General Observer, Special Police Observer & Special Expenditure Observer for Uttarakhand; Anil Kumar Sharma had been Spl Observer for West Bengal elections; Ajay Nayak, IAS (Retd.) (BH:84) will be the Special General Observer; Deepak Mishra, IPS (Retd.) (AGMUT:84) the Special Police Observer and B Murali Kumar, Ex IRS(IT) (1983) and B R Balakrishnan, Ex IRS(IT) (1983) will be the two Special Expenditure Observers for Uttar Pradesh.