Who gets the cycle? Poll panel asks Akhilesh, Mulayam to prove strength

Commission wants signed affidavits of support before Jan 9

SEEKING VOLUNTARY retirement from service less than a month after he was chargesheeted by the CBI in a case of alleged corruption, IAS officer Rajendra Kumar, who was Principal Secretary to Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal at the time of his arrest in July last year, has alleged he was repeatedly told by his interrogators that they would set him free if he implicated the Chief Minister.

In a letter to the Delhi Chief Secretary on Wednesday, Kumar, a 1989 batch officer, wrote: “I have been made to pay the price for my belief in the political neutrality of a civil service officer in the form of false cases against me, accusing me of corruption and other charges... during the last few months, I have experienced an administrative environment wherein it seems extremely difficult to secure fair THE ELECTION Commission of India has initiated the process for the two warring factions of Samajwadi Party (SP) — led by Mulayam Singh Yadav and his son Akhilesh Yadav, respectively — to prove their majority, even as SP leaders from either camps made last-ditch efforts on Wednesday to save the party from splitting.

The Commission on Wednesday evening wrote to both factions asking for a show of strength among party delegates and MLAS, MPS and MLCS through “signed affidavits”. The EC is also learnt to have sought comments from the two camps

‘Made to pay the price’