The social media in Andhra Pradesh had seen wide circulation of a latter, supposedly or allegedly written by State Election Commissioner Nimmagadda Ramesh Kumar to the Union Home Ministry, hours after the Supreme Court gave its verdict on the local body polls postponement.
While the SEC had simply denied to have written any such letter, neither the commissioner as a person nor the commission as institution did not lodge a complaint with the police for using his official letter-head on which the letter was drafted.
The tenor and tone of the letters and the chosen words and phrases speak the political intention of the person behind this latter.
The entire letter is directed at creating a negative image for the government with political motive and no officer would choose such language against the government.
Nimmagadda is a senior bureaucrat and a diplomat as an individual. It was this diplomacy that made him to work for long years (2009 to 2016) with yet another retired police boss E S L Narasimhan, who served as Governor of the State.
Even if Nimmagadda is a mole of Chandrababu Naidu and is having ill-intentions to work against this government and his decision to postpone the elections and transfer some officers was taken at the behest of the TDP chief, he is not such insensible to use such language against the government and commit it in writing.
The subject and the matter of the five-page letter is mostly directed at the chief minister, his cabinet colleagues and the ruling party leaders.
There is also some statistical evidence related to the MPTC and ZPTC elections held in the State and the election process, which is officially available, suggesting that it was an “official communication.”
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The intention of this letter is to further widen the gap between the government and the SEC on one side, to take a political vengeance on the ruling party on the other, besides provoking one caste (Kamma) against the government.
If the letter is not an official and was not drafted by Nimmagadda Ramesh Kumar, it is better on his part as a bureaucrat to seek police and legal intervention to find out the source of its origin and the persons behind it.
He cannot simply wash off his hands by saying that he had not written any such letter, while the letter is in circulation on his letterhead, using his seat of power.
