Saturday, 16 April 2016

TMC Leader Anubrata Mondal Put Under Surveillance By EC

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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