TMC seeks removal of deputy election commissioner

March 04, 2021 19:47

Bengals ruling Trinamool Congress on Thursday wrote to the Election Commission of India, seeking the removal of deputy election commissioner Sudeep Jain who is in charge of the assembly polls. Jain is partial towards the Bharatiya Janata Party and the polls will not be fair if held under his watch, the TMC alleged in its letter.

Jain has already visited the state twice to hold talks with bureaucrats and police officers. A large number of Central police personnel have arrived in the state and been deployed in trouble-prone regions.

In the two-page letter, TMCs leader in the Rajya Sabha, Derek O Brien, cited deployment of state police under Central Armed Police Force officers during the 2019 Lok Sabha polls and called it a violation of the Constitution. He also referred to the ECIs decision to stop poll campaign after the vandalism at Kolkatas Vidyasagar College, which resulted in the damage to a bust of 19th century social reformer and educationist Ishwarchandra Vidyasagar, during a roadshow of Union Home Minister Amit Shah prior to the Lok Sabha polls.

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