The matter will come up for a hearing tomorrow
Suvendu Adhikari, Leader of Opposition in the West Bengal Assembly, has filed a PIL before a division bench of the Calcutta High Court demanding the deployment of central armed forces during next year’s election to the three-tier panchayat system in the state. The matter will come up for a hearing on Tuesday.
In the PIL filed before the division bench of Chief Justice Prakash Srivastava and Justice Rajarshi Bharadwaj, Adhikari also appealed for the rural civic body polls to be conducted next year under the supervision of a retired justice of the Calcutta High Court.
Earlier, Suvendu Adhikari had expressed apprehension that the ruling Trinamool Congress will try to wrest control over all the three-tiers in the state’s panchayat system by unleashing violence as they had done in the last polls in 2018. So now, his close associates said, he has decided to tap the legal doors so that avenues are opened to make the rural civic body polls peaceful as far as possible.
During the recent period, there had been a series of explosions, shootouts, and recovery of firearms, crude bombs, and explosives from different rural pockets in the state, coupled with the toll on human lives, which had aggravated the apprehensions of bloodbaths on the polling days.
However, Trinamool Congress’s (TMC) national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee has once again said in public meetings that the polling process in the rural civic body polls this time will be peaceful.
[With Inputs from IANS]
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