Jagan Mohan Reddy unmoved by Covid-19, fires TDP appointee SEC Ramesh Kumar

In Andhra Pradesh, Covid-19 has failed to stop Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy in his tracks. He issued an ordinance firing State Election Commissioner (SEC) Nimmagadda Ramesh Kumar, replacing him with retired Madras High Court judge Justice V Kanagaraj, last week. Kumar was appointed by the previous Telugu Desam Party (TDP) regime. He is a former IAS officer.

Reddy was not content with this. Through the ordinance, he truncated the term of the SEC from the existing five years to three years. Kumar, who holds a constitutional post, seems to have earned the CM’s wrath (if a reason was needed: it