Kolkata: On Friday, the Election
Commission (EC) ordered Trinamool Congress (TMC) Birbhum president Anubrata
Mondal to be put under constant surveillance. A strict vigil will be kept on
his movements by central forces under the supervision of a magistrate.
The development comes a day after Chief Election
Commissioner Nasim Zaidi warned that “urgent legal action” against him was
under consideration. The EC has sent the directive to state chief electoral
officer Sunil Gupta to execute the order from Friday night itself. The election
in Birbhum will be held on Sunday. The unprecedented EC decision followed a
large number of complaints against the TMC leader by Opposition parties as well
as members of civil society when the full bench of the EC led by Zaidi visited
Kolkata on Thursday.
Mondol is the TMCs Birbhum
district president, which goes to polls in the second phase this Sunday.
Sources said that the chief electoral officer had been
told to make arrangements to videograph with “date, timing and stamping” the
movements and activities of Mondal.
To ensure free and fair polls, the Election Commission
on Thursday removed SP Birbhum Mukesh Kumar and three OCs of Mayureshwar,
Bolpur and Labhpur police stations for allegedly working at the behest of the
ruling party. Sabyasachi Raman Mishra replaced Kumar as district police chief.
As per EC figures in seizure of arms, ammunitions and explosives, Birbhum tops
the list of the seven districts that will go to polls Sunday.
Meanwhile, the campaign for Sunday’s crucial second
phase of polls in 56 Assembly constituencies in West Bengal came to an end on
Friday.
Altogether 383 candidates, including 33 women, are
fighting for the 56 seats which are spread over seven districts — Alipurduar,
Jalpaiguri, Darjeeling, Uttar Dinajpur, Dakshin Dinajpur, Malda and Birbhum.
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