Bhubaneswar, May 5 -- The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has accused IPS officer Ashish Singh of showing favouritism to the Biju Janata Dal (BJD).

The party filed a complaint against the IPS officer at the Election Commission of India (ECI) on Monday.

The BJPhad earlier made allegations against Singh before the ECI. Acting on the allegation, the ECI had on April 5 directed the immediate removal of Ashish Singh from the post of IG(Western range).

Following the ECI order, the state government posted him as IG at the CMO, the BJP pointed out.

The BJP alleged that despite being a government officer, Singh has been working for the BJD and is involved in strategies to ensure BJD's win by hook or by crook which is a serious professional miscon...