New Delhi, January 25: The Election Commission today said that it is prepared to send a team to the poll-bound West Bengal to study the ground realities in trouble spots pointed out by the ruling CPI(M).
“The Left parties said they will send in writing those places which they feel are the trouble spots. The Commission is ready to send a team to study the ground realities in those areas,” Chief Election Commissioner S Y Quraishi told reporters here.
He was replying to a question on CPI(M) leader Sitaram Yechury”s charge that the EC team visited only those areas which were pointed out to by the opposition Trinamool Congress and not those places where a large number of people have been evicted by the Maoists.
The CEC said that the law and order is an issue in the state where an atmosphere of political violence is prevailing.
“The Commission has a lot of inputs to understand the situation. The Commission has already received a report on the ground realities from the six-member team that visited the state recently,” he said on the sidelines of a function here.
The six-member team headed by Chief Electoral Officer of Bihar Sudhir Kumar Rakesh visited West Bengal last week to make an independent assessment of the law and order situation there.
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