Election Fee Gets rid of Officials From eight Kolkata Constituencies For Alleged Bias
Kolkata:
The Election Fee has got rid of returning officials of 8 constituencies in Kolkata which can cross to the polls within the ultimate two stages of the West Bengal meeting elections on April 26 and 29, an reliable mentioned as of late.
New officers have already been appointed within the Chowringhee, Entally, Bhowanipur, Beliaghata, Jorasanko, Shyampukur, Kashipur-Belgachia and Kolkata Port meeting segments, he mentioned.
Leader Electoral Officer Ariz Aftab described the switch of the 8 returning officials “as a regimen transfer since that they had held their posts for greater than 3 years”.
Assets within the Election Fee instructed information company Press Accept as true with of India that court cases had been gained towards the officials for allegedly favouring the ruling Trinamool Congress.
Kolkata Port meeting constituency will vote on April 26 and the elections to different seven seats shall be hung on April 29.
“Returning officials play crucial position within the election procedure, and the norm of shifting officials was once adopted in those instances,” the reliable of the ballot panel mentioned.
The Election Fee had lately got rid of 3 officers, together with the returning officer of the Ballygunj meeting constituency within the town.
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