Trinamool alleges poll panel of bias,
opposition flays remarks
Sunday March 10, 2013 09:36:50 PM,
IANS
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Kolkata: Firing a
fresh salvo at the state poll panel, West Bengal's ruling Trinamool Congress Sunday accused its chief of favouring the Left
Front and trying to defer the upcoming rural polls to save it from
"an inevitable defeat". Opposition parties flayed the comments.
"The state government had made all preparations for the panchayat
(rural body) polls in February, but for some unexplained reasons
and beyond our comprehension, the state election commission
deferred the polls from February," Trinamool 1general secretary
Mukul Roy told the media here.
The Trinamool and the state poll panel, which conducts the
elections to local bodies like the panchayats and the civic
bodies, have for months locked horns over the panchayat polls.
While the commission wants a three-phase voting and deployment of
central paramilitary forces, the state government is pitching for
a two-phase poll by pressing into service only the state police
personnel.
Maintaining that it was the constitutional right of the state
government to not only notify the rural polls but also fix the
schedule, Roy accused state Chief Election Commissioner Meera
Pandey of favouring the Left Front during whose regime she was
appointed to the post.
"She (Pandey) was appointed in 2010 during the rule of the Left
Front, which had recommended her to the post. It now seems she is
taking all the measures to save them from an inevitable loss in
the polls," he said.
"The state government will notify the polls as also fixing the
date. There are no two ways about this," added Roy citing the
Constitution.
Meanwhile, the opposition attacked Roy for his comments.
"The Trinamool wanted to hold panchayat elections at gunpoint.
Their leadership is devoid of any respect to institutions in a
democratic set up like the Election Commission and this is
reflected in the remarks made by Roy," Communist Party of
India-Marxist leader Mohammad Salim said.
"His (Roy) comments are totally unwarranted and frivolous.
Bureaucratic bodies must be given the independence to function
impartially," state Congress president Pradip Bhattacharya said.
The Bharatiya Janata Party too joined the chorus of criticism
against Roy's remarks.
"If Roy alleges that those appointed during Left Front times are
working on behalf of the Left, then the corollary is that those
appointed in Trinamool time are working for the Trinamool," BJP
state president Rahul Sinha said.
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