Memorandum to EC

April 16, 2016

Press Release

A two member delegation of the CPI(M) consisting of General Secretary Sitaram Yechury and Central Secretariat Member Nilotpal Basu met the Chief Election Commissioner today to draw the attention of the Commission some disturbing events regarding the West Bengal Assembly elections. The text of the memorandum submitted to the Commission is being released herewith.

Dear Sir,

At the very outset, let us thank the Election Commission of India for its prompt response to our submission on April 12, 2016. We believe that your first time appraisal of the situation in West Bengal would be more useful for us for initiating subsequent action for holding a free and fair election in the remaining phases in West Bengal.

But the Chief Minister’s response to the decisions of the EC has been unconstitutional and outrageous. We are forwarding the representation of the CPI(M) West Bengal State Committee dated April 15, 2016 (Annexure I) for suitable and necessary action.

Over and above the notice that the Commission has issued to the Chief Minister another hate speech by her at Belda on April 8^th where she offered inducements as well needs to be taken into cognizance. CPI(M) West Bengal State Committee has represented to this effect (Annexure II).

We are also hereby annexing a representation from the CPI(M) West Bengal State Committee for overcoming the difficulties that are to surely arise for exercising appropriate surveillance on the AITC leader, Anubrata Mondal (Annexure III). But it seems that these actions are proving inadequate to deter the miscreants a representation of the CPI(M) Birbhum District Committee will appraise you of the situation (Annexure IV).

We are reiterating that to ensure effective deployment of the Central Forces, some further changes are necessary in the policing set-up by replacing the ADG law and order with some other officer. The West Bengal CPI(M) has represented to this effect (Annexure V)

Finally, we are hereby submitting a full list of sensitive booths which are going to polls on April 17, 2016 (Annexure VI).

With regards,

Yours sincerely

Sd/-

(Sitaram Yechury) (Nilotpal Basu)

General Secretary Member, Central Secretariat

Memorandum to EC

April 30, 2014

The Chief Election Commissioner
Election Commission of India
Nirvachan Sadan
New Delhi

Dear Sir,

There has been large-scale rigging and violence in the elections to the 16th Lok Sabha held in West Bengal today. This has completely distorted the process of conducting free and fair polls. This is a grave affront to parliamentary democracy in our country. People’s faith in the democratic electoral process can only be restored if a re-poll is conducted at least in the booths mentioned below.

On behalf of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), we, hereby demand that a re-poll be conducted with proper deployment of central paramilitary forces, so that people can vote freely and fairly. We also demand that proper process to identify and apprehend those responsible for such grave malpractices and the consequent gross distortion of the election process.

We can cite one example of gross inadequacy concerning the number of measures that the Election Commission had suggested, to be mandatorily employed for the conduct of the polls. Of the 17,330 polling booths where polling was held today, only 0324 had a video surveillance of any sort. While conducting the re-poll, these distortions must also be properly addressed apart from deploying sufficient number of central paramilitary forces.

25 Howrah PC

169 Bally AC: 22, 23, 24, 25, 28, 32, 33, 39, 40, 41, 42, 45-48, 154, 155, 156, 157, 158, 159-162, 182, 183, 184, 185, 188, 189 – 30 booths.

170 Howrah Uttar AC: 10, 37, 38, 44-49, 53-55, 59-64, 75, 78-95, 131, 138, 142-145, 149, 174, 230, 231 – 46 booths.

173 Howrah Dakshin AC: 135-138, 196 – 5 booths.

174 Sankrail (SC) AC: 73-77 – 5 booths.

175 Panchla AC : 136, 142, 186, 187, 188, 202, 210, 211, 231, 256, 257 – 11 booths.

26-Uluberia PC

177 Uluberia Uttar (SC) AC: 34, 35, 41, 42, 43, 47, 52, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 80, 89 – 15 booths.

180 Bagnan AC: 89, 96, 97, 114, 117, 122, 123, 138, 143, 144, 145, 166, 168, 169, 172, 225, 226, 227, 238 – 19 booths.

181 Amta AC: 100, 104, 105, 106, 107, 108, 109, 110, 111, 112, 113, 114, 115, 116, 117, 122, 123, 124, 128, 129, 130, 131, 132, 133, 134, 135, 136, 137, 138, 171, 183, 184, 185, 186, 188, 189, 190, 193, 194, 200, 201 – 42 booths.

182-Udaynarayanpur AC: CPI(M) polling agents driven out. Booth Nos: 53, 56, 58, 63, 70, 77, 78, 79, 80, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 112, 116, 118, 127, 128, 129, 130, 131, 132, 133, 134, 135, 136, 137, 140, 141, 144, 145, 146, 147, 148, 149, 150, 151, 153, 163, 164, 166, 169, 170, 171, 172, 173, 175, 177, 178, 203, 205, 206, 207, 212, 213, 214, 215, 216, 220, 221, 230, 233, 234, 239, 244, 245, 253 – 70 booths.

29-Arambag (SC) PC

199 Pursurah AS: 12, 18, 19, 20, 39, 40, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 72, 73, 75, 76, 82, 83, 84, 85, 151, 163, 164, 176, 177, 178, 179, 180, 181, 182, 183, 184, 185, 186, 187, 188 – 38 booths.

200 Arambagh AS: 1, 2, 16, 17, 20, 23, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 92, 93, 94, 95, 100, 101, 102, 109, 121, 122, 123, 124, 125, 126, 127, 128, 180, 181, 182, 190, 192, 196, 206, 258, 266, 271, 276 – 44 booths.

201 Goghat AS: 59, 60, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 100, 101, 102, 109, 116, 117, 118, 121, 122, 127, 159, 160, 161, 162, 170, 171, 172, 180, 181, 182, 190, 192, 196, 200, 206, 236, 237, 249, 258, 266, 271, 276 – 50 booths.

202 Khanakul AS: 76, 77, 78, 240 – 4 booths.

38-Bardhaman Purba (SC) PC

261-Raina (SC) AC: CPI(M) polling agents driven out. AITC captured ballot unit. They forced voters to vote AITC. Booth Nos. 2, 3, 9-13, 18-21, 92, 93 -13 booths.

265-Memari AC: Polling Agents driven out from booths. Booths Nos. 119, 120, 122, 123 – 4 booths.

268-Purbasthali Dakshin AC: Booths captured. Booth Nos. 108-118, 137-141, 143-153 – 27 booths.

39-Bardhaman-Durgapur PC

267-Bhatar AC: CPI(M) polling agents driven out. Booth Nos. 24-39 – 16 booths.

41-Bolapur (SC) PC

271-Ketugram AC: Booths captured. Booth Nos. 10, 11, 18, 21, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 40, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 57, 58, 59, 74, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 100, 107, 108-118, 121, 122, 134, 167, 168, 169, 170 – 50 booths.

272 Mongolkote AC: 7, 11, 12, 14, 15, 19, 30, 31, 32, 34, 35, 46, 47, 48, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 92, 93, 102, 103, 105, 141, 142, 148, 149, 150, 151, 168, 169, 216, 217, 218, 219, 220, 221, 222, 223, 229, 230 – 56 booths.

273-Aushgram (SC) AC: Booth Nos. 9, 10, 11, 28, 29, 31, 32, 33, 34, 43, 44, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 71, 76, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 103, 104, 105, 121, 122, 123, 129, 148, 174, 176, 198, 199, 210, 211, 218, 219, 220, 221, 222, 234, 235, 236, 237, 244, 245, 246, 247, 248, 251, 252, 253, 254, 260 – 69 booths.

Birbhum

286 Bolpur AC: 4-10, 12, 20-22, 24, 30, 33-40, 43, 50-53, 63-65, 67, 70, 73, 85-87, 89-91, 93-95, 98, 99, 102, 104, 105, 110, 113, 120, 121, 124, 125, 129, 134, 169 – 55 booths.

287 Nanoor (SC) AC: Almost all booths especially of GP Bahiri-Panswa, Singi, Bara-swata, Chakgram.
21, 22, 24, 27, 28, 37, 48, 50-52, 55-57, 68, 69, 71-73, 75-77, 82, 84-87, 89-97, 99-106, 108-111, 113, 114, 115, 116, 117, 118, 119, 120, 121, 122, 123, 126, 127, 128, 187, 188, 189, 192, 193, 194, 195, 196, 197, 198, 199, 200, 201, 202, 203, 205, 206, 207, 208, 209, 210, 211, 212, 213, 214, 215, 216, 217, 218, 219, 220, 221, 222, 223, 224, 225, 226, 227, 228, 229, 230, 231, 232, 233, 234, 235, 236, 237, 238, 239, 240, 241, 242, 243, 245, 246, 247, 248, 249, 250, 251, 252, 253, 254, 255, 256, 257, 258, 259, 260, 266, 268, 269, 270, 271, 297, 298, 299 – 142 booths.

288 Labpur AC: Booth No. 28, 101, 103, 104, 105, 106, 107, 108, 116, 117, 126, 209, 210 – 14 booths.

With regards,
Yours sincerely

Sd/-
(S. Ramachandran Pillai) (Sitaram Yechury)
Member, Polit Bureau Member, Polit Bureau