KOLKATA: A Trinamool Congress delegation, led by MP Sudip Bandyopadhyay on Saturday urged the Election Fee to convey again the rule which enjoined upon political events to nominate solely folks, registered as voters in an meeting phase the place an election sales space was situated, as polling brokers for that sales space.
The rule had been relaxed final week to permit brokers to be appointed from any a part of an meeting constituency.
Bandyopadhyay informed reporters after assembly Chief Electoral officer Aariz Aftab that solely locals, dwelling within the meeting phase the place the sales space was situated ought to be appointed as polling brokers by events “as was the observe earlier.”
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“After representations by BJP, the Election Fee has modified the lengthy established custom of asking events to have polling brokers from the identical locality and this has triggered quite a lot of issues within the cubicles within the first part as most of the brokers do not even know one another,” he stated.
The TMC has therefore urged CEO to revert to the sooner observe of getting polling brokers of the identical locality which can even minimise the possibility of discrepancies and guarantee truthful polling within the remaining seven phases, he added.
To a query on EC response to TMC’s calls for, Bandyopadhyay stated “the CEO listened to our factors. However didn’t say a lot.”
Requested if he anticipated a beneficial response from EC, he stated “our job is to level out points to them. We consider in democratic traditions.”
Reacting to claims by BJP that TMC is frightened of the end result as it’s quick shedding assist, Bandyopadhyay stated “after Could 2 it is going to be amply clear who the populace prefers.”
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