TMC has submitted a written letter with a complaint to the Chief electoral officer, West Bengal about the deployment of units of UP police ahead of the E.

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In its desperation to make serious inroads into West Bengal polity, BJP is possibly trying to arm-twist Election Commission of India to allow deployment of police units from states under its rule.

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The letter from TMC said, “It has come to our notice that 30 companies of State Armed Police (S.A.P) from Uttar Pradesh has been directed to be deployed by the Election Commission for the ongoing General Election to the Assembly Elections of West Bengal. While we do not object to deployment of S.A.P from any non-BJP ruled states, however we strongly object to deployment of personnel of S.A.P from UP, since it is governed by Bharatiya Janata Party and their Chief Minister Shri Yogi Adityanath, is a star campaigner for BJP.”

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“The above would heavily disturb the level playing field and impartiality of the election machinery and we suspect them to have a bias in favour of BJP,” the letter further said.

“We call upon the Election Commission to immediately stop such movement/deployment of S.A.P from UP and/or any other BJP ruled state to West Bengal,” it also added.

West Bengal has become a heated battleground between TMC and BJP with both the parties exchanging volleys of accusations against each other.

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The schedule for the upcoming elections in India (four states and a UT) was announced on February, 26, 2021. In West Bengal, the election will be held in 8 phases from March 27 to April, 29 and the vote counting will take place on May, 02, 2021.