The alacrity with which the Election Commission transferred Ilayaraja T, the District Magistrate and Anil Singh Kushwaha, the Superintendent of Police of Bhind in Madhya Pradesh has raised more questions than answers.





The transfers were ordered the day after a demonstration of Electronic Voting Machine at the Bhind Collectorate turned into an embarrassment when all buttons pressed indicated votes were being cast for a single party, namely the BJP. A report in The Times of India on Sunday reported that the DM and the SP had been transferred on Saturday by the Madhya Pradesh Government.





The Indian Express however reported on Monday that it was the Election Commission which had ordered the transfer of the officials on Sunday.





The hurried transfers came as a surprise because it was only late on Saturday afternoon that a formal complaint was lodged with the Election Commission by the Congress. The EC had then called for a report and announced that a team of officials would conduct an inquiry into the allegation backed by a video that had gone viral.