Up to this point on: Nov 28, 2025 09:16 pm IST
In step with latest incidents relating to to breach of safety at the allege of business of the CEO in West Bengal, ECI has directed the allege of business to be shifted to a secured web page: ECI first rate
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Kolkata: The Election Price of India (ECI) on Friday directed the West Bengal Chief Electoral Officer (WBCEO) to shift the poll panel’s allege of business in Kolkata to a extra steady web page, days after a “serious safety breach” in which a bunch of Booth Level Officers (BLOs) “gheraoed” the CEO and his group.
“In step with latest incidents relating to to breach of safety at the allege of business of the CEO in West Bengal, ECI has directed the allege of business to be shifted to a secured web page. ECI also directed the Kolkata Police Commissioner to make certain full safety of the CEO’s reward and new allege of business,” stated a senior ECI first rate.
The poll panel also directed the director usual of West Bengal Police and the Kolkata Police commissioner to make certain safety of the CEO’s allege of business in Kolkata and that no political events threaten sales web page-stage workers.
Within the period in-between, a 10-member delegation of the Trinamool Congress (TMC) met the Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar on Friday and alleged that as a minimal 40 of us, along with some Booth Level Officers (BLOs), maintain died of distress and work overload of the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in West Bengal. The celebration handed over a list to CEC Kumar.
“We handed over to him (CEC) a list of round 40 ineffective as a result of SIR course of while sharing the general crucial points. We began the meeting by telling him that the CEC and the ECI maintain blood on their fingers,” Derek O’Brien, leader of the TMC Parliamentary celebration within the Rajya Sabha, stated after the meeting in Delhi.
The delegation had 5 Lok Sabha MPs and 5 Rajya Sabha MPs of the TMC. The meeting lasted for round two hours.
“We raised 5 questions. Kumar spoke for round one hour. We didn’t get an design to any of our 5 questions,” O’Brien stated.
A senior first rate of the ECI, however, stated that the poll panel gave some extent-wise rebuttal of all apprehensions and each “baseless” allegation made by the TMC. The poll panel also requested the TMC now now not to impress or threaten the BLOs all over their work, he added.
“ECI additional requested the TMC to present claims and objections after December 9 when the draft list is shared. Except then the TMC would possibly maybe merely aloof now now not interfere with the self enough functioning of BLOs, EROs and DEOs who are allege executive staff on deputation to election-connected works,” the poll panel first rate stated.
For the length of the meeting, the ECI also instructed the TMC that the West Bengal executive used to be yet to disburse the elevated honorarium for BLOs, which used to be accredited by the ECI.
“The Election Price is intentionally planting selective leaks to falsely claim that they’ve supplied some extent-by-point rebuttal to the points raised by the AITC delegation at the recent time. These assertions are now now not proper misleading, they are OUTRIGHT LIES. If the EC genuinely has nothing to veil and the truth is believes in transparency, then rather than hiding within the support of motivated leaks, it must at present open the general CCTV photos and each share of proof it claims to have. Anything less handiest exposes their unfavorable faith and raises serious questions about their intent,” TMC National usual secretary Abhishek Banerjee wrote on X.
This comes days after chief minister Mamata Banerjee wrote support-to-support letters to the CEC earlier this month. Within the first letter, she knowledgeable the CEC to quit the SIR within the allege, labelling it as an unplanned and coercive force. Within the 2nd letter, the chief minister flagged concerns over the poll panel’s resolution to nominate deepest files entry operators and build of dwelling up polling stations in deepest housing complexes.
“The TMC is now now not towards the belief that of SIR. We are strongly towards the unplanned system in which the ECI is going in regards to the job. It’s entirely unplanned and heartless,” O’Brien stated.
“The TMC would possibly maybe merely aloof first submit the list of TMC workers who were killed within the previous few years and suppose who has blood on their fingers. It would’t be that the CEC will make some statements from Delhi and the region in West Bengal can be entirely assorted. The CEC has to come support appropriate down to West Bengal. He has to take inventory of the floor region right here. He can’t proper ship some representatives and take deputations sitting in Delhi,” BJP president in West Bengal Samik Bhattacharya stated.
