The CPIML (Liberation) has lodged complaints with the Election Commission, seeking the arrest and prosecution of CISF personnel responsible for the firing at voters outside a polling booth in Cooch Behar district and a ban on campaign by Union home minister Amit Shah and Bengal BJP chief Dilip Ghosh for allegedly vilifying the victims.
In a complaint lodged with chief election commissioner Sunil Arora on Sunday, CPIML (Liberation)’s central committee member Abhijit Mazumder asked him to act against the CISF personnel responsible for the killings.
“The CISF firing is being justified in the name of “self-defence”. But this excuse does not hold, since there is no evidence that those killed committed any violence against the CISF personnel. Any minor skirmish between supporters of various parties could and should certainly have been handled with minimum force. If the CISF cannot maintain order without using the maximum deadly force, why are they being deployed during elections at all?