Kolkata: West Bengal’s Head Election Officer (CEO), Aariz Aftab, has directed officials to conduct an electronic voting machine (EVMS) and a voter verification paper audit machine (VVPat) in seven assembly seats lying empty due to the death of the candidate or resignation of MLA , said an official on Saturday.
Aftab’s order was issued on Friday, the day after the Delegation of the Trinamool Congress met the election commission in Delhi to reduce his request to hold a bintan to an empty assembly chair in the earliest state.
TMC was interested in Bypolls as the Supremo Mamata Banerjee party, who lost assembly elections from Nandigram, must be elected within six months to continue as the main minister.
In this case, the Bypolls must be carried out on November 5 “The CEO has written to the District Election Officer (DEO) from Cooch Behar, Nadia, 24 North Parganas, 24 Pargana and Kolkata Dakshin to start the first-level inspection of EVMS & VVPat before the general election because there was held , “The official said to PTI.
Deo has been instructed to conduct an examination between August 3 and 6 strictly followed the Covid-19 protocol, “the official said.
Bypolls matured in the Constituency of Bhabanipur, Khardah, Gosaba, Shantipur, Jangipur, Samserjee.
Banerjee is expected to submit a nomination from Bhabanipur on Kolkata, which was emptied by winning the TMC Sinha candidate surrendered to Covid-19.
In Gosaba’s seat in the 24 South Parwards, TMC Mla Jayanta Naskar also died of Covid’s complications last month.
In Dinhata in Cooch Behar and Santipur Regency in Nadia District, Nomination Winner BJP stopped as MLA wanted to maintain their parliamentary review site.
Polled read out in Jangipur and Samserganj, both in the Murshidabad district, after the death of the candidate because of the viral in the sea.
“Because no voting held in the Murshidabad district, no need to check Evms and Vvpats there, “said the officer.
In a memorandum submitted to Komi The election on Thursday, TMC stated that with a decrease in the number of cases of Koronavirus in the state, the condition was conducive to doing a bypoll with the appropriate Covid protocol.
The election commission said on Friday that Bypoll to the Sabha’s Rajya seat from West Bengal emptied by Dinesh Trivedi earlier this year will be held on August 9.
Bengal CEO asked the officer to check the EVMS in a blank assembly chair
