Bhubaneswar, May 2 -- The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) today moved the Election Commission of India (ECI) alleging grave misconduct by Odisha-cadre IAS officer Sujata R. Karthikeyan with regard to the implementation of SVEEP programme for the simultaneous Lok Sabha and Assembly polls in the state.

Sujata Karthikeyan, the wife of bureaucrat-turned-politician VK Pandian, has been posted as the Mission Shakti department Commissioner-cum-Secretary in Odisha.

In its complaint before the ECI, the BJP alleged that Sujata Karthikeyan has given a go-bye to professionalism and is now acting as an agent of the ruling Biju Janata Dal (BJD) in the state.

"VK Pandian has joined the ruling BJD in Odisha after taking voluntary retirement from his IAS ...