Statesman News Service
MALDA, March 18: The chief electoral officer Mr Debashis Sen will hold a meeting with the Malda district administration to conduct Kharba Assembly by-election scheduled to be held on 12 April. The Malda district magistrate today held a meeting with the all political parties regarding the Kharba by poll and informed about the notification of this by poll.The administrative officials urged all political party leaders to maintain model code of conduct till the end of the election. The leaders were also officially informed about the date of filing nomination forms and other formalities. It may be noted there were series of inauguration programmes in March, just before panchayat polls, but all the programmes were cancelled after notification of by poll. Though a few Congress leaders were vocal against the CPI-M leader and minister for environment Mr Sailen Sarkar on charges of violation of model code of conduct when he visited arsenic-free drinking water project at Kahala in Ratua to inaugurate the project, there was no official complaint.“Officially I do not have information that the arsenic free water treatment plant was inaugurated by anyone on 15 or 16 March”, said Chanchal SDO. It was decided that the polling officials will conduct votes through electronic voting machine and there will be armed forces at each polling station in Kharba Assembly constituency under Chanchal sub-division. “The CEO will review the situation to finalise the entire system including arrangement of armed police forces after interacting with the district magistrate and superintendent of police”, said Mr Debasish Sarkar, the SDO Chanchal.
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