The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) today will meet officials of the Election Commission of India to urge them to hold Lok Sabha election in West Bengal under the supervision of Central forces. The BJP will be telling the EC that it does not trust the state police and hence will be demanding intervention from Central forces. The meeting will be held at 5 pm.
On Monday too, the BJP had complained to the EC that the ruling Trinamool Congress leaders were "threatening the voters". "There is no democracy in West Bengal. Just after the announcement of the election on Sunday, a Trinamool minister, who also happens to be the Mayor of Kolkata, said that the CRPF will just come for two days and rest of the days, people have to depend on the state police. We believe he was threatening them," state Bharatiya Janata Party Vice President Jay Prakash Majumdar said after an all-party meeting convened by the state's Chief Electoral Officer.