Bengal Election 2021: Trinamool Asks Election Frame To Appoint Best Locals As Ballot Sales space Brokers
Trinamool stated most effective locals residing within the meeting section the place the sales space is positioned must be appointed.
Kolkata:
A Trinamool Congress delegation, led by means of MP Sudip Bandyopadhyay, has instructed the Election Fee to deliver again the rule of thumb which enjoined upon political events to nominate most effective other people, registered as electorate in an meeting section the place an election sales space was once positioned, as polling brokers for that sales space.
The rule of thumb have been comfortable final week to permit brokers to be appointed from any a part of an meeting constituency.
Mr Bandyopadhyay, after assembly Leader Electoral Officer (CEO) Aariz Aftab, stated that most effective locals, residing within the meeting section the place the sales space was once positioned must be appointed as polling brokers by means of events “as was once the observe previous.”
“After representations by means of BJP, the Election Fee has modified the lengthy established custom of asking events to have polling brokers from the similar locality and this has led to numerous issues within the cubicles within the first section as most of the brokers do not even know each and every different,” he stated.
The TMC has instructed the CEO to revert to the sooner observe of getting polling brokers of the similar locality which may also minimise the risk of discrepancies and make sure honest polling in the remainder seven stages, he added.
Mr Bandyopadhyay stated “the CEO listened to our issues. However didn’t say a lot.”
Requested if he anticipated a beneficial reaction from EC, he stated “our task is to indicate problems to them. We consider in democratic traditions.”
Reacting to claims by means of BJP that TMC is terrified of the end result as it’s speedy shedding make stronger, Mr Bandyopadhyay stated “after Might 2 it is going to be amply transparent who the populace prefers.”
