Ahmedabad: Chief Election Commissioner J M Lyngdoh, who hit the headlines a few months back for his diatribe against the bureaucracy in Gujarat, on November 11 came down at the society here, saying it was "certainly much more nasty" than the one in Jammu and Kashmir.

"Kashmir was deadly in all sense where we ourselves were put on personal danger at times. Gujarat ... it is not so dangerous but it is certainly much nasty," Lyngdoh told reporters at the end of his first-day consultations with officials and political party representatives.

To a question on how he would assess the state bureaucracy's role as against that during his earlier visit in August, Lyngdoh, who had certain uncomfortable remarks against a civil servant in Vadodara during his earlier trip, in a lighter vein said, "Vadodara is a friendly place."

To a question on replacing of Ahmedabad collector, he said the Commission has asked the state government for a panel of officers among which the EC would decide on the appointment.

PTI