BJP delegation meets Bengal Guv demands central forces for municipal polls
Kolkata Nov 30 PTI West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar on Tuesday said he has assured of taking up with the State Election Commission a BJP delegations demand for deployment of central armed forces for fair and peaceful municipal polls Elections to the Kolkata Municipal Corporation are scheduled to be held on December 19 and polls to the other municipal bodies are likely in phases thereafter A delegation of the BJP called on and strongly urged that for impartial independent and fair municipal elections it is necessary that central armed police force be positioned Dhankhar said in a video on Twitter I will take up the matter with the State Election Commission and deal with the issue appropriately he saidDelegation leader Raju Banerjee alleged that BJP candidates for the KMC elections and its workers are facing physical and verbal intimidation by ruling Trinamool Congress supporters We will also meet the State Election Commissioner tomorrow and place our demand for deployment of central police force Banerjee saidTMC MLA Tapas Roy however sought to remind the BJP of the outcome of the West Bengal assembly elections held earlier this year despite deployment of central forcesIt is the peoples support that matters the masses are with Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee he asserted PTI AMR RBT RBT
Kolkata Nov 30 PTI West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar on Tuesday said he has assured of taking up with the State Election Commission a BJP delegations demand for deployment of central armed forces for fair and peaceful municipal polls Elections to the Kolkata Municipal Corporation are scheduled to be held on December 19 and polls to the other municipal bodies are likely in phases thereafter A delegation of the BJP called on and strongly urged that for impartial independent and fair municipal elections it is necessary that central armed police force be positioned Dhankhar said in a video on Twitter I will take up the matter with the State Election Commission and deal with the issue appropriately he saidDelegation leader Raju Banerjee alleged that BJP candidates for the KMC elections and its workers are facing physical and verbal intimidation by ruling Trinamool Congress supporters We will also meet the State Election Commissioner tomorrow and place our demand for deployment of central police force Banerjee saidTMC MLA Tapas Roy however sought to remind the BJP of the outcome of the West Bengal assembly elections held earlier this year despite deployment of central forcesIt is the peoples support that matters the masses are with Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee he asserted PTI AMR RBT RBT
