Memorandum to EC

Date: 
Wednesday, April 30, 2014

The Chief Election Commissioner
Election Commission of India
Nirvachan Sadan
New Delhi

Dear Sir,

There has been large-scale rigging and violence in the elections to the 16th Lok Sabha held in  West Bengal today.  This has completely distorted  the process of conducting free and fair polls. This is a grave affront to parliamentary democracy in our country.  People’s faith in the democratic electoral process can only be restored if a re-poll is conducted at least in the booths mentioned below.

On behalf of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), we, hereby demand that a re-poll be conducted with proper deployment of central paramilitary forces, so that people can vote freely and fairly.  We also demand that proper process to identify and apprehend those responsible for such grave malpractices and the consequent gross distortion of the election process. 

We can cite  one example of gross inadequacy concerning the number of measures that the Election Commission had suggested, to be mandatorily employed for the conduct of the polls.  Of the 17,330 polling booths where polling was held today, only 0324 had a video surveillance of any sort.  While conducting the re-poll, these distortions must also be properly addressed apart from deploying sufficient number of central paramilitary forces. 

25 Howrah PC

169 Bally AC:  22, 23, 24, 25, 28, 32, 33, 39, 40, 41, 42, 45-48, 154, 155, 156, 157, 158, 159-162, 182, 183, 184, 185, 188, 189 – 30 booths.

170 Howrah Uttar AC: 10, 37, 38, 44-49, 53-55, 59-64, 75, 78-95, 131, 138, 142-145, 149, 174, 230, 231 – 46 booths.

173 Howrah Dakshin AC: 135-138, 196 – 5 booths.

174 Sankrail (SC) AC: 73-77 – 5 booths.

175 Panchla AC : 136, 142, 186, 187, 188, 202, 210, 211, 231, 256, 257 – 11 booths.

26-Uluberia PC

177 Uluberia Uttar (SC) AC: 34, 35, 41, 42, 43, 47, 52, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 80, 89 – 15 booths.

180 Bagnan AC: 89, 96, 97, 114, 117, 122, 123, 138, 143, 144, 145, 166, 168, 169, 172, 225, 226, 227, 238 – 19 booths.

181 Amta AC:  100, 104, 105, 106, 107, 108, 109, 110, 111, 112, 113, 114, 115, 116, 117, 122, 123, 124, 128, 129, 130, 131, 132, 133, 134, 135, 136, 137, 138, 171, 183, 184, 185, 186, 188, 189, 190, 193, 194, 200, 201 – 42 booths.

182-Udaynarayanpur AC: CPI(M) polling agents driven out. Booth Nos: 53, 56, 58, 63, 70, 77, 78, 79, 80, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 112, 116, 118, 127, 128, 129, 130, 131, 132, 133, 134, 135, 136, 137, 140, 141, 144, 145, 146, 147, 148, 149, 150, 151, 153, 163, 164, 166, 169, 170, 171, 172, 173, 175, 177, 178, 203, 205, 206, 207, 212, 213, 214, 215, 216, 220, 221, 230, 233, 234, 239, 244, 245, 253 – 70 booths.

29-Arambag (SC) PC

199 Pursurah AS: 12, 18, 19, 20, 39, 40, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 72, 73, 75, 76, 82, 83, 84, 85, 151, 163, 164, 176, 177, 178, 179, 180, 181, 182, 183, 184, 185, 186, 187, 188 – 38 booths.

200 Arambagh AS: 1, 2, 16, 17, 20, 23, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 92, 93, 94, 95, 100, 101, 102, 109, 121, 122, 123, 124, 125, 126, 127, 128, 180, 181, 182, 190, 192, 196, 206, 258, 266, 271, 276 – 44 booths.

201 Goghat AS: 59, 60, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 100, 101, 102, 109, 116, 117, 118, 121, 122, 127, 159, 160, 161, 162, 170, 171, 172, 180, 181, 182, 190, 192, 196, 200, 206, 236, 237, 249, 258, 266, 271, 276 – 50 booths.

202 Khanakul AS: 76, 77, 78, 240 – 4 booths.

38-Bardhaman Purba (SC) PC

261-Raina (SC) AC: CPI(M) polling agents driven out.  AITC captured ballot unit. They forced voters to vote AITC. Booth Nos. 2, 3, 9-13, 18-21, 92, 93 -13 booths.

265-Memari AC: Polling Agents driven out from booths. Booths Nos. 119, 120, 122, 123 – 4 booths.

268-Purbasthali Dakshin AC: Booths captured. Booth Nos. 108-118, 137-141, 143-153 – 27 booths.

39-Bardhaman-Durgapur PC

267-Bhatar AC: CPI(M) polling agents driven out. Booth Nos. 24-39 – 16 booths.

41-Bolapur (SC) PC

271-Ketugram AC: Booths captured. Booth Nos. 10, 11, 18, 21, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 40, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 57, 58, 59, 74, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 100, 107, 108-118, 121, 122, 134, 167, 168, 169, 170 – 50   booths.

272 Mongolkote AC: 7, 11, 12, 14, 15, 19, 30, 31, 32, 34, 35, 46, 47, 48, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 92, 93, 102, 103, 105, 141, 142, 148, 149, 150, 151, 168, 169, 216, 217, 218, 219, 220, 221, 222, 223, 229, 230 – 56 booths.

273-Aushgram (SC) AC: Booth Nos. 9, 10, 11, 28, 29, 31, 32, 33, 34, 43, 44, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 71, 76, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85,  86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 103, 104, 105, 121, 122, 123, 129, 148, 174, 176, 198, 199, 210, 211, 218, 219, 220, 221, 222, 234, 235, 236, 237, 244, 245, 246, 247, 248, 251, 252, 253, 254, 260 – 69 booths.

 


Birbhum

286 Bolpur AC: 4-10, 12, 20-22, 24, 30, 33-40, 43, 50-53, 63-65, 67, 70, 73, 85-87, 89-91, 93-95, 98, 99, 102, 104, 105, 110, 113, 120, 121, 124, 125, 129, 134, 169 – 55 booths.

287 Nanoor (SC) AC: Almost all booths especially of GP Bahiri-Panswa, Singi, Bara-swata, Chakgram.
21, 22, 24, 27, 28, 37, 48, 50-52, 55-57, 68, 69, 71-73, 75-77, 82, 84-87, 89-97, 99-106, 108-111, 113, 114, 115, 116, 117, 118, 119, 120, 121, 122, 123, 126, 127, 128, 187, 188, 189, 192, 193, 194, 195, 196, 197, 198, 199, 200, 201, 202, 203, 205, 206, 207, 208, 209, 210, 211, 212, 213, 214, 215, 216, 217, 218, 219, 220, 221, 222, 223, 224, 225, 226, 227, 228, 229, 230, 231, 232, 233, 234, 235, 236, 237, 238, 239, 240, 241, 242, 243, 245, 246, 247, 248, 249, 250, 251, 252, 253, 254, 255, 256, 257, 258, 259, 260, 266, 268, 269, 270, 271, 297, 298, 299 – 142 booths.

288 Labpur AC: Booth No. 28, 101, 103, 104, 105, 106, 107, 108, 116, 117, 126, 209, 210 – 14 booths.

  With regards,
Yours sincerely

Sd/-
(S. Ramachandran Pillai)            (Sitaram Yechury)
Member, Polit Bureau     Member, Polit Bureau