“State Election Fee is a department group of TMC,” BJP chief Suvendu Adhikari stated. (File)
Kolkata:
West Bengal Bharatiya Janata Get together (BJP) on Tuesday wrote to the State Election Commissioner demanding rapid deployment of Central Armed Police Forces (CAPF) to “take away the setting of worry and construct confidence” within the folks for municipal elections within the state.
“As identified up to now, there are common cases of our candidates being intimidated, being threatened with life, over the telephone and in particular person. In all instances, the native police are simply silent spectators and generally refuse to register a grievance,” the state BJP wrote within the letter.
“Additionally, our candidates are usually not being allowed to marketing campaign, put up banners, flags, wall writing. Right here once more, the native police are usually not prepared to assist and in lots of instances take a blatant partisan line in help of the ruling occasion,” it added.
Particularly mentioning Sainthia municipality, the BJP in its letter stated that the native police there are making telephone calls to folks asking them to help the Trinamool Congress (TMC) candidate and to not take part with the BJP.
“We as soon as once more ask the State Election Fee for the deployment of CAPF to take away the setting of worry,” the letter added.
Addressing the difficulty, BJP chief and Chief of Opposition in West Bengal Meeting Suvendu Adhikari stated, “West Bengal authorities is misusing its energy and is assembling goons of a specific group however we’re able to combat the polls. State Election Fee is a department group of TMC.”
In the meantime, the West Bengal State Election Fee has postponed the state municipality elections, which had been scheduled for January 22 to February 12.
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