The petition of Tripathy stated that on April 10, 2021, during the fourth phase of the election schedule, in the State of West Bengal, the villagers were voting peacefully since the morning at a poll booth in Sitalkuchi (Amtali Madhyamik Siksha Kendra) in Cooch Behar district of North Bengal. While polling was underway, some BJP cadres were taking 50-60 voters to the polling booth escorted by CISF personnel.
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The residents of Sitalkuchi’s Jorpatki have a question for the Election Commission: why did it not send any representative to the village after the deaths of four voters in CISF firing, unlike its prompt action when a BJP politician was found dead in the same district?
Most of the villagers
The Telegraph spoke to said they were high school dropouts with very little idea about the outside world, but were aware that the poll panel was supposed to be a neutral body.
Two yardsticks
“A few days ago, a BJP leader was found dead in Dinhata town. Immediately, the Election Commission ordered an investigation and sent the special police observer to Cooch Behar to conduct an inquiry and submit a report,” said Mortuza Mian, a local youth.
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