Overview
- The Election Commission removed Falta’s joint BDO and assistant returning officer Saurav Hajra and posted Ramya Bhattacharya, ordering immediate compliance and a report the same day.
- EC observer Ajay Pal Sharma visited Falta after complaints and warned that any voter intimidation would draw strict action, in a video that spread widely online.
- Sharma questioned why 14 state police guards were posted at TMC candidate Jahangir Khan’s home when 10 were approved and issued a notice to the district police chief.
- Khan accused Sharma and accompanying personnel of threatening his party office and family, while TMC leaders objected to the observer’s conduct and supporters staged protests.
- A woman filed a police complaint saying men claiming to be CRPF entered her home and pushed her family to vote for the BJP, as the EC deployed 95 observers to oversee the April 29 phase.