11-24-2005, 10:16 AM
CPM to protest against EC for âcrossing limitsâ
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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Stung by the Election Commissionâs directive to delete 72,000 names of criminals and âabscondersâ from the Bengal electoral list prior to state assembly elections slated sometime early next year, the CPM has decided to lodge a strong protest with the EC for âcrossing its limitsâ.</b>
In its directive to the West Bengal Chief Electoral Officer (CEO), the Election Commission has categorically stated that those against whom non bailable arrest warrants had been issued and absconding for the last six months at a stretch, are not eligible to vote and hence, their names must be deleted from the final votersâ list.
âThe Commission does not possess any right to act like this and we will shortly be sending a protest note to the EC in New Delhi,â CPM state secretary Anil Biswas said here on Wednesday.
If the EC diktat has to be implemented, names of a large number of activists and leaders belonging to the CPM and its coalition partners besides Congress and Trinamool will have to be struck out of the votersâ list.
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<b>The decision to petition the EC by the CPM state leadership has been triggered by the Commissionâs move to start distribution among the political parties a CD containing all the 72,000 names that figure in the police records.
Meanwhile, Trinamool Congress supremo Ms Mamata Banerjee who congratulated the EC for its âmarvellousâ job in Bihar, appealed to the Commission to âdo a Bihar in Bengal too.â</b>
If the EC decides or is allowed to adopt identical measures (as taken in Bihar) to hold assembly elections in West Bengal next year, the results will also reflect the change, people of Bihar had opted for,â Ms Banerjee told reporters here on Wednesday.
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In its directive to the West Bengal Chief Electoral Officer (CEO), the Election Commission has categorically stated that those against whom non bailable arrest warrants had been issued and absconding for the last six months at a stretch, are not eligible to vote and hence, their names must be deleted from the final votersâ list.
âThe Commission does not possess any right to act like this and we will shortly be sending a protest note to the EC in New Delhi,â CPM state secretary Anil Biswas said here on Wednesday.
If the EC diktat has to be implemented, names of a large number of activists and leaders belonging to the CPM and its coalition partners besides Congress and Trinamool will have to be struck out of the votersâ list.
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<b>The decision to petition the EC by the CPM state leadership has been triggered by the Commissionâs move to start distribution among the political parties a CD containing all the 72,000 names that figure in the police records.
Meanwhile, Trinamool Congress supremo Ms Mamata Banerjee who congratulated the EC for its âmarvellousâ job in Bihar, appealed to the Commission to âdo a Bihar in Bengal too.â</b>
If the EC decides or is allowed to adopt identical measures (as taken in Bihar) to hold assembly elections in West Bengal next year, the results will also reflect the change, people of Bihar had opted for,â Ms Banerjee told reporters here on Wednesday.
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