Gorakhpur DM, Who Stopped Media from Entering Counting Centre, Promoted

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Lucknow: The Yogi Adityanath-led UP government transferred 37 IAS officers in a major reshuffle on Friday night. Of the 16 District Magistrates and four divisional commissioners transferred, one of them was Gorakhpur DM Rajeev Rautela, who was in news for stopping journalists from entering the counting centre during the constituency’s recently concluded bypoll.

Rautela has now been made the new divisional commissioner of Devipatan division, while K Vijyendra Pandiyan was made the new Gorakhpur DM.