Kolkata, May 10: Chief Election Commissioner S Y Quraishi today congratulated the people of West Bengal, political parties and all those involved in the polling process for a ensuring free, fair and peaceful elections.
“Yes he (Quraishi) called me up and congratulated everybody for ensuring a free, fare and peaceful election,” State Chief Electoral Officer Sunil Gupta said.
“The CEC congratulated the people of the state for coming in large numbers to exercise their franchise, the political parties for showing restraint and all the poll workers for immense labour and dedication and all these contributed significantly for conducting a peaceful election,” he said.
Asked whether he felt relieved after the completion of the sixth and final phase of the Assembly elections, Gupta said, “I am relaxed to some extent but not fully because all the polling personnel involved in conducting the election in the sixth phase have not reached their destinations.”
Apart from minor incidents there has not been any major law and order problem or disruption during the polls and the people have come out in numbers, EC sources said.
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