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Using its powers nether the electoral law, the Election Commission has suspended 7 officials successful West Bengal with contiguous effect for superior misconduct, dereliction of work and misuse of statutory powers successful transportation with SIR.
All the suspended officers were moving arsenic adjunct electoral registration officers for the ECI.
Booth-level and electoral registration officers and their assistants are authorities authorities employees who enactment connected deputation for the EC to update the voters' database and assistance clasp elections.
Quoting orders, EC officials said the canvass authorization has directed State Chief Secretary Nandini Chakravarty that disciplinary proceedings beryllium initiated against these officials by their respective cadre controlling authorities immediately, without immoderate hold and the Commission beryllium apprised successful this regard.
The EC and the Trinamool Congress authorities successful West Bengal person been astatine loggerheads implicit the ongoing peculiar intensive revision of the voters' list.
