: The Election Commission Friday removed Andhra Pradesh Chief Secretary Anil Chandra Punetha from the post and appointed senior-most IAS officer L V Subrahmanyam of the 1983 batch in the place of the former.
The EC stated this in a communication to the Andhra Pradesh government.
Earlier, the EC had removed two top bureaucrats from their positions during election time.
Also, the EC directed that Punetha, scheduled to retire from service May-end, be posted to a 'non-election' position.'
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