Declare West Bengal ‘super sensitive’ state: BJP to EC

New Delhi: The BJP Wednesday urged the Election Commission to declare West Bengal as a “super sensitive state” to enure fair Lok Sabha polls there and demanded that central forces be deployed at all polling stations in the state.
A BJP delegation including Union ministers Ravi Shankar Prasad, Nirmala Sitharaman, J P Nadda and party’s general secretaries Bhupender Yadav and Kailash Vijayvargiya met top officials of the poll body and apprised them of their demands.
Briefing the media after the meeting, Prasad said, “We have requested the Election Commission that the state of West Bengal should be declared as super-sensitive. And have also demanded that central forces should be deployed at all polling booths in the state.”
He said the party has also requested the poll panel to transfer those police officers whose electoral impartiality is questionable as well as the withdrawal of former Kolkata Police Commissioner Rajeev Kumar from election duty. (PTI)