[Marxistindia] Memo to ECI -- Conduct Repoll in 50 Booths in Tamluk P.C

[news from the cpi(m)]

                                                             May 7, 2009


Press Release



Shri Jogendra Sharma, Member, Central Secretariat of the Communist Party
of India (Marxist) met the Dy. Election Commissioner Shri Balakrishnan
this afternoon to appraise him of the incidents of rigging in the
Nandigram area of 210 Nandigram AC under 30 Tamluk Parliamentary
Constituency in West Bengal.


He handed over a memorandum listing out 42 polling booths that were
forcibly captured by hoodlums belonging to the Trinamul Congress. CPI(M)
polling agents were not allowed to enter these booths. Several CPI(M)
workers have suffered injuries in the attacks. It was also pointed out
that the Biman Basu, Secretary of the West Bengal State Committee of the
Party and the Secretary of the Purba Medinipur District Committee had
written to the West Bengal CEO on several occasions detailing the
situation and seeking his intervention to ensure free and fair polls in
the constituency. 


The Party has demanded repoll in 50 polling booths in the Tamluk
Parliamentary constituency.



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