Cabinet Secretary had copied acknowledgement sent to letters by two ECs to CEC for ‘information’: RTI reply
An RTI reply disclosed that Cabinet Secretary T.V. Somanathan merely forwarded the acknowledgment of letters sent on July 29 by Election Commissioners S.S. Sandhu and Vivek Joshi to the Chief Election Commissioner for information. The letters concerned the functioning of Senior Deputy Election Commissioner Maneesh Garg. The response clarifies the cabinet secretary’s role in the correspondence as part of the official record.