With the Election Commission of India (ECI)’s Special Intensive Revision (SIR) likely to take place in West Bengal immediately at the end of this month, the office of the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) has a new Additional CEO and Joint CEO.

Arun Prasad, an Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer of the 2011 batch of the West Bengal cadre, has been appointed as the new Additional CEO of the state.

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Panicker Harishankar, an IAS officer of the 2013 batch, has been appointed as the Joint CEO.

An insider from the CEO’s office stated that the current CEO, Manoj Kumar Agarwal, has received confirmation from the ECI’s headquarters in Delhi regarding the appointment of Prasad and Harishankar as the new Additional CEO and Joint CEO of West Bengal, respectively.

However, despite

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