Kolkata, March 22: Chief Election Commissioner S Y Quraishi today said that central and other paramilitary forces would not be allowed to camp inside schools where booths would be set up for the upcoming polls in West Bengal.
“The central and other paramilitary forces will not be allowed to camp inside schools for days since this will affect the functioning of the educational institutions”, Quraishi said at an interactive session at the Merchants’ Chamber of Commerce here.
The forces would be allowed to enter school premises only during poll time and they would leave the place once the process was over, he said.
On requisition of private cars and two-wheelers for poll duty, he said that since conduct of elections required huge logistics support, there was no alternative to the Election Commission but to requisition them only as the last resort.
—-PTI