Suvendu Adhikari writes to CEC, seeks removal of ‘biased’ police officers during Bengal assembly polls
Adhikari, the leader of opposition in the West Bengal assembly, claimed that at a police association convention held in Digha recently, many participants expressed their desire to see Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee as chief minister for a fourth term.
“These police officers have destroyed the norms of maintaining impartiality and have become biased. These police officers should not be put on poll duty when the model code of conduct (MCC) comes into force ahead of the assembly elections in West Bengal,” he said at a press conference.
“I have sent a letter to the CEC to remove biased police personnel from election duty,” Adhikari said. he said.
Claiming that men in uniform cannot make such political statements, the BJP leader claimed that the police under Mamata Banerjee had destroyed the last vestiges of democracy in the state.
He claimed that the majority of police personnel wanted to oust the Trinamool Congress government. On the issue of appointment of data entry operators for election-related work, Adhikari alleged that the state government’s Webel Technology Limited has been tasked with appointing personnel recruited from TMC’s political consultancy firm I-PAC. “Data entry operators should ideally be permanent employees of the West Bengal government,” he said.
The West Bengal CEO recently directed district election officers not to depute contractual data entry operators and Bangla Sahayata Kendra staff for SIR or other poll-related work.
In a letter to the CEC on Monday, the chief minister criticized the CEO for issuing a Request for Proposal (RfP) for the recruitment of 1,000 Data Entry Operators and 50 Software Developers for a period of one year, stating that field offices always hire their own contract data entry staff as per requirement.
