Kolkata, April 14 (IANS) The Trinamool Congress on Tuesday filed a complaint to the West Bengal Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Manoj Kumar Agarwal against the District Electoral Officer (DEO) of Kolkata South over the latter’s social media post released where a popular Bollywood song was used to spread the message of the Election Commission of India (ECI) to ensure free and fair and violence-free elections in the forthcoming two-phased Assembly elections in the state scheduled later this month. T…
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Kolkata, April 7 (IANS) The Trinamool Congress on Tuesday approached the Election Commission of India (ECI) about the unnecessary police harassment faced by its local party leaders and workers at one of the crucial Assembly constituencies in West Bengal. Trinamool Congress’ National Working Committee member and Rajya Sabha member, Derek O’Brien, had written a letter to the West Bengal Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Manoj Kumar Agarwal, seeking protection of party leaders and workers against unnec…
Kolkata, April 4 (IANS) The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), on Saturday, wrote a letter to the West Bengal Chief Electoral Officer (CEO), Manoj Kumar Agarwal, seeking removal of Police officers Shantanu Sinha Biswas (Kolkata Deputy Commissioner of Police), Bijitaswa Routh (Inspector-in-Charge), and Rahul Amin Ali Shah (Sub-Inspector) for their alleged partisan and compromised roles. “It has come to notice that Deputy Commissioner of Police Shantanu Sinha Biswas and Bijitaswa Routh (Inspector-in-Ch…
Kolkata, April 3 (IANS) The Election Commission of India (ECI), on Friday, announced the suspension of a joint block development officer (BDO), also the assistant returning officer (ARO), in East Burdwan district of West Bengal on charges of gross dereliction of duty. The officer concerned is Jyotsna Khatun, the joint BDO-cum-ARO of the Khandaghosh Development Block in East Burdwan district.In a communique sent by the ECI’s Secretary Sujeet Kumar Mishra to the West Bengal Chief Secretary Dushyan…
Kolkata, March 31 (IANS) As a commotion broke out between the Trinamool Congress-aligned Booth Level Officers (BLOs) and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) workers outside the West Bengal Chief Electoral Officer’s (CEO) office on Tuesday, over an alleged attempt to submit Form-6, both the sides hurled accusations at each other.While the BJP accused the West Bengal Police of siding with the Trinamool members, the latter accused the BJP of including outsiders in the state’s voter list and forming a “nex…
Kolkata, March 27 (IANS) Saikat Chatterjee, a polling officer in poll-bound West Bengal and a teacher at a state-run school, was allegedly thrashed by some individuals after he protested against the playing of a purported Trinamool Congress campaign video during an electoral training programme at Ranaghat in Nadia district on Friday afternoon.The incident took place at Ranaghat Debnath Institute for Boys School, where a training programme for polling personnel was being conducted.After the incid…
Kolkata, March 8 (IANS) The Election Commission of India (ECI)’s full bench, led by Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar, arrived in Kolkata from New Delhi late on Sunday evening with a packed schedule for the next two days.CEC Gyanesh Kumar and his team were received at the Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport by West Bengal Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Manoj Kumar Agarwal and state Chief Secretary Nandini Chakraborty.CEC Kumar is scheduled to begin the visit early on …
Kolkata, March 2 (IANS) The West Bengal Civil Service (Executive) Officers’ Association on Monday refuted remarks by West Bengal Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Manoj Kumar Agarwal attributing the marking of certain names as “under adjudication” in the final electoral rolls, published after the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) process, to the functioning of Electoral Registration Officers (EROs) and Assistant Electoral Registration Officers (AEROs).In a statement posted on social media, the …
Kolkata, Feb 23 (IANS) The West Bengal Pradesh Congress Committee (WBPCC), on Monday, demanded the release of error-free voter lists before the upcoming Assembly elections to be held in West Bengal. WBPCC President Subhankar Sarkar also announced a 24-hour sit-in protest in front of the West Bengal Chief Electoral Officer’s (CEO) office in Kolkata from 2 p.m. on February 27, to press their demand.At the same time, the State Congress President has launched a political attack on Prime Minister Nar…
Kolkata, Feb 20 (IANS) The Election Commission of India (ECI) has identified the electoral registration officers (EROs) and assistant electoral registration officers (AEROs) “guilty” of “deliberately” delaying the process of uploading of identity documents received during the hearing sessions on claims and objections on the draft voters’ list in West Bengal. Sources in the West Bengal Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) claimed that 120 and 150 EROs and AEROs have been found “guilty”….