Kerala registers 69 per cent voter turnout in second phase LS polls
The state had seen a voter turnout of 77.84 per cent in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.
Trinamool Congress on Tuesday alleged that the BJP’s “filthy tricks” are destroying the Election Commission of India and demanded that the Supreme Court monitored the Lok Sabha elections.
In a social media post on ‘X’, senior TMC leader and Rajya Sabha MP Derek O’Brien accused the ruling dispensation at the Centre of manipulating the electoral landscape ahead of the Lok Sabha elections.
“BJP’s filthy tricks destroying institutions like ECI. Are the BJP so nervous to face people that they are turning ECI into a party office to target Oppn? ECI or HMV? Transferring officers of elected State govts! For free & fair elections. We want a Supreme Court-monitored election,” O’Brien stated in a post on X.
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His remarks came after the Election Commission replaced Mamata Banerjee-appointed West Bengal DGP Rajeev Kumar.
Reacting to the development, TMC spokesperson Kunal Ghosh had earlier hit out at the Modi government and said, “We have seen that the BJP is trying its best to grab different organisations including the ECI. They have taken over the control of central agencies and different organisations. In this case also, after the announcement of Lok Sabha elections, what we saw today is the reflection of the BJP. It is trying its best to grab and monitor the functioning of these kinds of organisations, including ECI.”
In a major reshuffle after the announcement of Lok Sabha elections 2024 schedule, the Election Commission on Monday ordered removal of West Bengal Director General of Police (DGP) and home secretaries of six states of Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand, Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand.
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