EC officials to visit poll bound Assam today
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Published: Monday, January 18, 2021, 10:52 [IST]
New Delhi, Jan 18: Chief Election Commissioner Sunil Arora along with Election Commissioners Sushil Chandra and Rajiv Kumar will visit Assam and West Bengal beginning Monday to take stock of preparations for assembly polls to be held in the next few months.
The commission would reach Guwahati on Monday evening and leave for Kolkata on January 20 evening according to the programme decided last week, official sources said.
Deputy Election Commissioner Sudip Jain was in West Bengal last week to meet officials. This was Jain s second visit to West Bengal.
Preparations for the upcoming West Bengal elections are in full swing. In West Bengal, which has approximately 78,000 polling booths with 6.5 crore voters, political violence is an old tradition.
Updated Jan 15, 2021 | 07:37 IST
The visit comes a day after BJP leader Kailash Vijayvargiya claimed that he has a list of 41 TMC leaders who are willing to join the BJP. Dilip Ghosh in Delhi today | Photo Credit: PTI
New Delhi/ Kolkata: Ahead of Assembly polls in West Bengal, the state BJP leadership of Dilip Ghosh, Amitava Chakraborty and others will visit New Delhi to hold deliberations with the party s central team. While the agenda of the meeting is yet unknown, the leadership is likely to discuss the way forward ahead of the Assembly polls during their meeting with Home Minister Amit Shah.
West Bengal BJP to raise concerns regarding political violence with EC
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State BJP vice president Pratap Banerjee, who is in charge of the election office set up for the assembly polls, told ET, “Sudip Jain is coming to Kolkata. We will meet him and inform him about our concerns. We have complete faith in the body. The core agenda of the BJP is to ensure justice to the people of Bengal, and it starts with free and fair elections.
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The party is also demanding that all the IAS and IPS officials who had a role to play in the 2018 panchayat polls be revoked before polls.