VIJAYAWADA: State election commissioner
N Ramesh Kumar
on Monday issued orders suspending joint director G V Sai Prasad, for breach of
code of conduct
. The
SEC
further said the suspended official “will not be entitled for any terminal benefits and is barred from entering any other government service.”
Ramesh Kumar said Sai Prasad had gone on leave for 30 days even though the SEC had issued the notification for gram panchayat elections. He further alleged that the joint director had encouraged several of the commission’s employees to go on leave with an intention to derail the election schedule.
The leave “was part of a larger design to adversely affect the functioning of the commission in the backdrop of some developments already taking place,” Kumar said in the proceedings. He said the SEC had conducted an inquiry and found that Sai Prasad had “actively tried to influence all the employees, misusing his authority to similarly apply for 30 days leave en masse and desert the office of the commission with a view to paralyse the functioning of the commission.”