LIVE! Mamata eats humble pie: Removes 7 officials, appoints new after EC order

April 09, 2014 14:51

After the bluster, West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee is digging into humble pie. The West Bengal government executes the Election Commission order and removes seven officials and appoints new ones replacing them.

If her attack on the EC on Monday was unprecedented, her climbdown barely 24 hours later was surprisingly uncharacteristic and came after the panel rejected the state government's plea to revisit its decision on the transfer and gave a deadline of 1am for Wednesday to comply with its orders.

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