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Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar is scheduled to clasp a bid of meetings with elder officials and constabulary officers successful West Bengal connected Tuesday (March 10, 2026) to reappraisal preparedness for the upcoming Assembly elections, officials said.
The CEC volition besides clasp a property league amid controversies implicit alleged arbitrary deletions successful the post-SIR electoral rolls.
Mr. Kumar, on with Election Commissioners Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Vivek Joshi, is scheduled to clasp meetings with West Bengal Chief Secretary Nandini Chakravorty, Director General of Police (DGP) Piyush Pandey and different elder officials to measure election-related arrangements successful the State.
The canvass sheet volition besides reappraisal coordination betwixt the State medication and information agencies, including the deployment of cardinal equipped constabulary forces, the officials said.
The committee is scheduled to clasp a gathering with the Chief Electoral Officer of West Bengal, the State constabulary nodal serviceman and the CAPF nodal serviceman to reappraisal logistical arrangements and information planning, an authoritative of the CEO’s bureau said.
The committee is besides expected to interact with booth-level officers (BLOs) and clasp a property league aboriginal successful the day.
The meetings are portion of the programmes during the Election Commission of India’s (ECI’s) three-day sojourn to West Bengal to reappraisal canvass preparedness for the upcoming Assembly elections successful the State.
On Monday (March 9), the afloat seat of the committee met representatives of governmental parties successful Kolkata.
The governmental parties suggested that the elections beryllium conducted successful 1 oregon 2 phases, and urged the committee to instrumentality stringent measures to curb intimidation of voters and activities of anti-social elements during the polls.
“A wide scope of issues concerning the behaviour of elections successful the State were discussed. Several parties suggested that the elections beryllium held successful 1 oregon 2 phases and assured their practice successful ensuring that the polls stay peaceful,” a elder ECI authoritative said.
During meetings connected Monday (March 9), the CEC warned that immoderate lapse successful maintaining instrumentality and bid up of the elections would not beryllium tolerated and stressed the request for strict monitoring to guarantee escaped and just polls.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee had accused Mr. Kumar of threatening State officials during a gathering with the medication and warned that “false bravado” by law authorities was not acceptable, stepping up the confrontation betwixt the State Government and the canvass panel.
Speaking from the tract of her dharna successful cardinal Kolkata against the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, Ms. Banerjee alleged that the CEC had adopted a threatening code towards the State bureaucracy.
CEC faces ‘go back’ slogans, shown achromatic flags extracurricular Dakshineswar temple
CEC Kumar faced protests with a radical of radical raising ‘go back’ slogans and showing achromatic flags to him during his sojourn to Dakshineswar Kali Temple adjacent Kolkata connected Tuesday greeting (March 10).
A akin protestation was held extracurricular the Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport upon his accomplishment successful Kolkata connected Sunday nighttime (March 8).
He had faced the ‘go back’ slogan and was shown achromatic flags connected Monday greeting (March 9) erstwhile helium visited the Kalighat Temple successful the confederate portion of the city.
Despite the protests, Mr. Kumar continued with his scheduled engagements successful the State.
The CEC besides visited Belur Math successful Howrah territory this greeting and said the canvass sheet is committed to violence-free elections successful West Bengal.
He said the ECI volition marque efforts to guarantee that voters tin workout their franchise successful a festive environment.
“The ECI would similar to guarantee that polls volition beryllium violence-free oregon intimidation-free,” Mr. Kumar said portion addressing mediapersons during the sojourn to Belur Math.
