INDIA
CEC Sunil Arora on Friday sought an explanation from the West Bengal government over the absence of the Kolkata police commissioner, Rajeev Kumar during a meeting of the EC's full bench
Chief Election Commissioner Sunil Arora on Friday sought an explanation from the West Bengal government over the absence of the Kolkata police commissioner, Rajeev Kumar, during a meeting of the EC's full bench.
The full bench of the Election Commission (EC) on Thursday met representatives of civil society organisations to take their views and suggestions to make the 2019 Lok Sabha elections more inclusive, ethical, accessible and participative.
Rajeev Kumar is the commissioner of police of Kolkata.
#Breaking: Chief Election Commissioner Sunil Arora has sought an explanation from the controlling officer of the Kolkata Police Commissioner Rajeev Kumar as he skipped the meeting with the full bench of ECI to review poll preparedness @dna @ZeeNews @WIONews pic.twitter.com/BCJOCyGqjr
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Amid a raging debate over the use of electronic voting machines in polls, Arora said there was no consideration of going back to the ballot paper.
"We are not going back to ballot paper," the chief election commissioner (CEC) told reporters.
The CEC was interacting with the media persons after meeting with representatives of political parties and officials.