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NEW DELHI: The Election Commission connected Saturday directed West Bengal main caput to suspend 4 Kolkata Police officials for "failing" to support instrumentality and bid during BJP person Suvendu Adhikari's information filing successful Bhabanipur constituency for the upcoming assembly polls.In a circular to the West Bengal main secretary, the canvass sheet said that the absorption is based connected a proposal from authorities electoral serviceman Manoj Kumar Agarwal."The committee has agreed to the connection and directs that the aforementioned constabulary officers beryllium suspended and disciplinary proceedings beryllium initiated against them immediately," the circular read.The missive besides directed enactment against Kolkata Police's Deputy Commissioner (DC-II), South Division, Siddhartha Dutta; Officer-in-Charge of Alipore Police Station Priyankar Chakraborty; Additional OC Chandi Charan Banerjee; and Sergeant Saurabh Chatterjee.Additionally, the EC besides asked the authorities authorities to guarantee that its directions are implemented without hold and that a compliance study beryllium submitted by 11 americium connected Monday.The canvass sheet besides sought an urgent connection from the authorities authorities to capable up the vacant posts, including that of DC-II, South Division, and the officer-in-charge positions astatine Alipore Police Station.This comes aft TMC workers waved enactment flags during BJP's roadshow earlier Adhikari's information filing connected Thursday. Union curate Amit Shah had besides accompanied Adhikari for the filing of the information papers connected April 2 successful the spot successful southbound Kolkata, wherever the person of the absorption successful the outgoing Assembly is pitted against incumbent main curate Mamata Banerjee.
As the convoy approached Kalighat, hardly a fewer 100 metres from Banerjee's residence, Trinamool Congress workers and supporters gathered connected the roadside waving green-and-white enactment flags, shouting 'Joy Bangla' and 'Mamata Banerjee Zindabad' slogans.However, the concern turned tense erstwhile the BJP roadshow and the TMC protestation came look to look adjacent Kalighat.For respective minutes, supporters of the 2 rival camps stood hardly a fewer metres apart, hurling slogans astatine each other.A heavy cordon of constabulary unit formed a quality partition betwixt the 2 groups to forestall immoderate clash, with officers pushing the rival supporters backmost connected either broadside of the road.The face-off brought postulation to a halt and heightened hostility successful the country earlier the BJP convoy moved ahead.
