EC Curtails WB Campaigning, Removes Officials After Poll Violence

The Principal Secretary, Home & Health Affairs and ADG of CID have been relieved by the EC.

In view of the violence during BJP President Amit Shah’s road show in Kolkata on Wednesday, 14 May, the Election Commission, in an unprecedented decision, invoked Article 324 to cut short poll campaigning in West Bengal by a day.

Two top government officials have also been relieved of their duties by the poll panel.

The election campaigning in the nine seats of the state, which go to polls in the last phase of Lok Sabha elections on 19 May, will have to be concluded by 10 pm on Friday. Under normal circumstances, the campaigning was allowed till 10 pm on Saturday.