India Election commission curtails campaigning in Bengal |
Campaigning for the seventh and last phase of Lok Sabha elections in West Bengal will end at 10 PM on Thursday night as Election Commission of India on Wednesday night curtailed the campaigning in the state following Tuesday`s Kolkata violence. Nine Lok Sabha seats in West Bengal will go to polls in the last phase on Sunday. The constituencies where campaigning has been curtailed are - Dum Dum, Barasat, Basirhat, Jaynagar, Mathurapur, Diamond Harbour, Jadavpur, Kolkata Dakshin and Kolkata Uttar. Addressing a press conference in New Delhi, Deputy Election Commissioner Chandra Bhushan Kumar said, it is for the first time that such an action has been taken using constitutional powers of the poll panel. The Commission also ordered the removal of State`s Principal Secretary (Home) Atri Bhattacharya and Additional Director General, CID, Rajeev Kumar from their posts. Deputy Election Commissioner Sudeep Jain said, Mr Bhattacharya stands relieved from his current charge immediately for having interfered in the process of conducting elections by directing the state chief electoral officer, which he was not supposed to do.
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