Mamata Banerjee asks EC to ensure peaceful and impartial voting in Bengal

West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee on Saturday asked the Election Commission to ensure that the final phase of the Lok Sabha elections in the state on Sunday are “peaceful and impartial”. Banerjee requested the poll panel to ensure that voting takes place without the “undue interference of the central government”, PTI reported.

Elections are under way in Kolkata North and South, Dum Dum, Barasat, Basirhat, Jadavpur, Diamond Harbour, Jaynagar (SC) and Mathurapur (SC) seats.

“In the final phase of the election tomorrow [Sunday], I would request your good office to kindly ensure that election is completed peacefully, impartially and without any undue interference of the Central government and any intervention by the ruling party at the centre,” Banerjee wrote in the letter addressed to Chief Election Commissioner Sunil Arora.