Statesman News Service
MALDA, Nov 27: The Congress candidate for the Sujapur by-poll, Miss Mousam Noor, urged her maternal uncle, Mr AH Khan Choudhury, Malda MP, to seek Central forces before election allegedly after being terrorised by the CPI-M workers.
She also requested her maternal uncle to invite Mr Rahul Gandhi here for a day to campaign for Sujapur by-polls when she came to know the Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh would pay only a short visit here and he would not attend any public rally even in Malda town on 7 December.
Speaking to the reporters last evening, the Malda MP, Mr AH Khan Choudhury told reporters that without presence of central forces it would be very difficult to conduct free and fair election to defeat the CPI-M candidate in Sujapur.
“I had told the chief electoral officer Mr Debasish Sen twice to send central forces to conduct by-poll here. I am trying to draw the attention of the election commission in Delhi about the terrorised situation of Sujapur”, Mr AH Khan, brother of late ABA Ghani Khan Choudhury, said.
On 7 December, when the PM would be coming to their home Miss Noor has planned to inform about the matter the PM seeking central forces here.
In a bid to stop rigging and booth capturing, yesterday, at all political party meeting convened by the district magistrate for by-poll, the Congress representatives urged the district magistrate and the superintendent of police to deploy central forces in some many sensitive booths.
The CPI-M district secretary, Mr Jiban Moitra, said: “Is it a state like Jammu-Kashmir that central forces would be required to conduct by-poll? Central forces are required where there is no law and order. People of this state and Sujapur is conscious.”
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