Kolkata, April 12 (IANS) A special team of the Election Commission of India (ECI) will arrive in West Bengal this week for a final review of preparedness for the two-phase voting on April 23 and April 29.Insiders from the office of the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) said that in all probability, the special ECI review team, headed by Senior Deputy Election Commissioner, Gyanesh Bharati, will arrive in Kolkata on Monday morning to review preparedness for the 294 Assembly constituencies in the stat…
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Kolkata, March 5 (IANS) The progress in poll preparations in two Bangladesh-bordering districts in West Bengal for the forthcoming Assembly polls has not been satisfactory so far, the Election Commission of India (ECI) has communicated to the office of the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO).These two districts are South 24 Parganas in South Bengal and Cooch Behar in North Bengal. Sources in the CEO’s office said that last week, the ECI’s top brass at its headquarters in New Delhi had a virtual me…
Kolkata, Dec 31 (IANS) The Election Commission of India (ECI) has fixed the multi-prong accountability of the District Magistrates (DMs), also the District Electoral Officers (DEOs), as regards to checking the authenticity of the supporting identity documents to be provided by the voters’ summoned for the ongoing hearing sessions on the claims and objections on the draft voters’ list which is a part of the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in West Bengal.The Deputy Election Commissioner, …
Kolkata, Dec 27 (IANS) The Election Commission of India (ECI), on Saturday, dismissed the allegations levelled by the four-time Trinamool Congress Lok Sabha member and the current Chief Whip of the party in Lok Sabha, Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar, earlier in the day accusing the Commission of deliberately summoning four of her family members for hearing on the claims and objections over the draft voters’ list in West Bengal with the intention of harassing them. On Saturday morning, Ghosh Dastidar told …