<p>TMC delegation comprising Saugata Roy, Mahua Moitra and Yashwant Sinha met the Election Commission to discuss issues related to 'free and fair elections in West Bengal' on Friday.</p>.<p>"We met EC today and we raised 3 points- the rule under which they are proposing to put only central forces withing 100mtrs of the polling booth, only 5% of VVPAT checking as supposed to 100% & the incident involving CM on March 10," TMC MP Mahua Moitra said as the meeting concluded</p>.<p>In a stern message to West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, the Election Commission on Tuesday said it is not proper to belittle the institution by calling it as being close to the ruling party and asserted that it would not like to be repeatedly "put in the dock" with innuendos and averments.</p>.<p>Despite meeting representatives of the TMC in Kolkata and the national capital in the recent past, "if it is stated by the CM that the Commission should meet political parties, it is only an attempt to belittle the institution of Commission with repeated innuendos and averments", the poll panel said in response to a letter from Banerjee to Chief Election Commissioner Sunil Arora on March 14.</p>.<p>Recently, the TMC had urged the panel to remove Jain as in charge of West Bengal and had questioned his neutrality. The commission had defended Jain by coming out with a press statement.</p>.<p>If the chief minister "persists in creating and attempting to perpetuate this myth for reasons best known to her, it is singularly unfortunate", he said, and added that it was only for her to adjudge why she was doing so.</p>.<p><em><strong>More to follow...</strong></em></p>
<p>TMC delegation comprising Saugata Roy, Mahua Moitra and Yashwant Sinha met the Election Commission to discuss issues related to 'free and fair elections in West Bengal' on Friday.</p>.<p>"We met EC today and we raised 3 points- the rule under which they are proposing to put only central forces withing 100mtrs of the polling booth, only 5% of VVPAT checking as supposed to 100% & the incident involving CM on March 10," TMC MP Mahua Moitra said as the meeting concluded</p>.<p>In a stern message to West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, the Election Commission on Tuesday said it is not proper to belittle the institution by calling it as being close to the ruling party and asserted that it would not like to be repeatedly "put in the dock" with innuendos and averments.</p>.<p>Despite meeting representatives of the TMC in Kolkata and the national capital in the recent past, "if it is stated by the CM that the Commission should meet political parties, it is only an attempt to belittle the institution of Commission with repeated innuendos and averments", the poll panel said in response to a letter from Banerjee to Chief Election Commissioner Sunil Arora on March 14.</p>.<p>Recently, the TMC had urged the panel to remove Jain as in charge of West Bengal and had questioned his neutrality. The commission had defended Jain by coming out with a press statement.</p>.<p>If the chief minister "persists in creating and attempting to perpetuate this myth for reasons best known to her, it is singularly unfortunate", he said, and added that it was only for her to adjudge why she was doing so.</p>.<p><em><strong>More to follow...</strong></em></p>