Up so a ways on: Nov 29, 2025 08:00 pm IST
The Election Commission of India has direcged the Bengal DEOs to extinguish rationalisation of polling stations by December 4
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Kolkata: The Election Commission of India (ECI) has directed the district magistrates in every district all over West Bengal, who double up as district election officers (DEOs) to blueprint housing societies the attach polling stations might possibly be position up for the duration of the speak assembly polls scheduled in 2026.
The DEOs had been directed to extinguish rationalisation of polling stations by December 4.
“The ECI has despatched a letter to the West Bengal chief electoral officer (WBCEO) and all DEOs to call city areas the attach team housing societies and excessive-rise residential buildings might possibly be found so to derive out the attach ample rooms reminiscent of total facilitation field, team halls, schools are obtainable inside the premises of such societies for the reason for constructing polling stations to cater to the resident electors,” said the ECI letter despatched to the WBCEO on Friday.
This comes days after West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee antagonistic the proposal and wrote a letter to chief election commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar, flagging concerns over the pollpanel’s decision to position up polling stations in inside most housing complexes.
“Why is this form of transfer being contemplated at all? All all over again, is that this being performed beneath the rigidity from a political ranking together to strategy their partisan interests? Why? Why? Why?” she wrote.
The BJP, on the other hand, has welcomed the transfer asserting that THE TMC would obviously oppose it as folks dwelling in housing societies in city areas don’t make stronger the TMC.
“The TMC would obviously oppose this form of proposal because they know very effectively that folk dwelling in these housing societies don’t make stronger them. The TMC always tried to shield these folks a ways flung from balloting and stopped them from reaching polling stations. If polling stations are position up inside housing societies, which are coated by CCTV cameras and hang safety guards, these folks would strategy out and vote against the TMC,” Rahul Sinha, BJP chief, instructed the media.
