Bengal Election Poll Officer Sleeps At TMC Leader’s House with EVM & VVPAT Machines, Suspended
West Bengal, 6 April 2021 – The latest news coming from West Bengal where polling is taking place in 31 seats in this third phase of the election. This is a Mammoth election in West Bengal. Remember there are still five more phases to go. There is a controversy in the Election. An election official slept over a TMC’s leader’s house and with him, he had the EVM and VVPAT machine.
Since the morning that is been making headlines. And the sector officer has since been suspended. Somehow 4 reserve EVM machines were to be used in case there was a fault somewhere. Those four machines ended up in the house of a Trinamool’s leader at Uluberia in Howrah district. And there was such a huge rush, and local people gathered over there to protest.
The CRPF had to be rushed in to control the situation. And finally, the entire matter was resolved after the sector officer was suspended and the four EVM machines have been ordered out of this election. They can be used anywhere. But in the meantime since the morning, the Trinamool Congress has been complaining in many booths. The CRPF was not being very helpful. They were not being helpful to the Trinamool Congress but to the BJP.
There were a series of complaints about this by the TMC party and now a short while ago, we have a tweet from the chief minister herself, who incidentally is up in North Bengal campaigning for the next phases. She has tweeted to say the blatant misuse of Central forces continues abated despite us repeatedly raising this issue. The ECI continues to be a mute spectator, while men in uniform are being misused at several places to openly intimidate TMC voters and influence many to vote in favor of one party.
The Chief Minister herself tweeting about this at a time when the BJP has been complaining that their workers their voters are being intimidated. And in fact, there have been sporadic incidents when we’ve seen or heard of actually voters trying to come in to vote, but Trinamool workers preventing them from coming in saying your vote has been passed go away.
So, a lot of these little tensions floating around in Bengal in this third phase of elections, a crucial phase 31 seats dominated in the past by the Trinamool Congress, but percentages have changed. Vote percentages have changed since 2019. And therefore growing tension over who is in control.
