ECI seeks report on violence in Bengal Assembly bypolls

The Election Commission of India (ECI) has sought an action taken report from the office of the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) West Bengal on reports of poll-related violence in the bypolls to four Assembly constituencies.

The Commission has taken special note of the complaints of booth-jamming at the Bagda Assembly constituency in North 24 Parganas



district and the harassment of the BJP candidate Binay Kumar Biswas allegedly by the Trinamool Congress supporters at a polling booth there.

The state unit of BJP has approached the Commission complaining that the CCTV cameras in many polling booths under the Maniktala Assembly constituency, where also the bypoll is being conducted, are inoperative.