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Howrah locals shower flowers on central force personnel during route march
KOLKATA: Around 650 companies of central forces were likely to arrive in Bengal before March 25, sources said on Tuesday.
These will be in addition to the 125 companies that have already reached Bengal and another 169 scheduled to arrive this week. The total number of companies of central forces (944) that will be in Bengal ahead of the assembly polls, scheduled to begin on March 27, is much higher than that in 2016 assembly polls and 2019 Lok Sabha polls. This, sources said, would be the highest pre-election deployment of central forces in Bengal.
ADG (law and order) Jag Mohan, along with senior officers of BSF and CRPF, held a meeting with Bengal chief electoral officer (CEO) Aariz Aftab on Tuesday on force deployment and logistics. A major section of the central force is likely to be deployed in the areas where the polling is slated for March 27 and April 1. The first and second phases of elections in
KOLKATA: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Tuesday conducted search operations at several places in Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh in con.
Trinamool Congress seniors said they “smelt politics” behind the move but chose not to comment officially on the decision. Party MP Saugata Roy linked the transfer to a BJP complaint on “law and order in Bengal” lodged by party MP Swapan Dasgupta and Bengal leader Shishir Bajoria.
The EC also informed the state government that as many as 29 IAS officers and nine IPS officers would be sent to other poll-bound states as poll observers. They include several state secretaries and two ADGs.
Shamim, who was Kolkata Police special commissioner, was made ADG (law and order) on Februrary 6 to comply with an EC directive that said officials previously transferred by the EC could not be given “active poll duty” again.