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The TMC has demanded that the canvass sheet region Surajit Roy arsenic the Bhabanipur Assembly Constituency's returning officer, alleging helium has adjacent links with BJP person Suvendu Adhikari, who is locked successful an aggravated combat with incumbent MLA and CM Mamata Banerjee successful the seat.
In a missive to the Chief Election Commissioner and West Bengal's main electoral serviceman connected March 24, the TMC's National Working Committee subordinate Derek O'Brien claimed that Mr. Roy, a WBCS serviceman of the 2011 batch, was antecedently posted arsenic artifact improvement serviceman of Nandigram-II Block and is "widely known" to beryllium intimately associated with Mr. Adhikari.
"There beryllium credible apprehensions regarding the independency and quality of Surajit Roy successful discharging his duties arsenic returning officer," Mr. O'Brien wrote.
He claimed that Mr. Adhikari's candidature from Bhawanipur gives emergence to "a tenable likelihood of bias and deficiency of neutrality.". The TMC besides questioned Mr. Roy's existent designation arsenic Additional Director of Land Records, saying it does not align with his seniority and that the presumption has conventionally been held by officers astatine the associated caput level.
The enactment urged the Election Commission to instantly acceptable speech Mr. Roy's appointment, region him from each election-related duties, and name "an independent, neutral and elder serviceman with nary perceived governmental affiliation" arsenic the returning serviceman for Bhabanipur.
