Poll office soft-pedalled complaints for 8 weeks
10 years, 10 months ago

Poll office soft-pedalled complaints for 8 weeks

Hindustan Times  

It was soft-pedalling of complaints by the Punjab chief electoral office during hectic campaigning of about eight weeks, for the parliamentary polls, which came to an end on Monday. CEO VK Singh courted controversy for his secret closed door meeting with Punjab director general of police Sumedh Singh Saini after a complaint was received against the latter by leaders of the Congress. Subsequent to that former chief minister Capt Amarinder Singh who is also Congress candidate from Amritsar lodged a complaint with Election Commission of India that the office of electoral officer was giving clean chits to all complaint against the ruling SAD-BJP alliance. Later, the Congress leaders from Punjab, including state Congress president Partap Singh Bajwa, CLP leader Sunil Jakhar and union minister Manish Tewari, also met chief election commissioner VS Sampath. Also, the chief electoral officer gave clean chit to revenue minister Bikram Singh Majithia when he allegedly used derogatory and threatening words against Capt Amarinder Singh.

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Live Mint  

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11 years ago

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The Hindu  

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