KJ Rao's still at it in WB

With the ruckus created by the AAI employees and the left, the upcoming elections in West Bengal have gone off the main page of the national media. Fortunately, the absence of attention has only prompted KJ Rao and other officers of the Election Commission to go about their clean-up in the state. Maybe it helps too that the state government's efforts currently are used up in abetting the AAI protestors shut down Kolkata airport. I've put together some news items to give an update of the EC's findings.

From what I see, the Left despise him, and the media attention being paid to him often bring out the hidden truths but the commies' systematic rigging in their bastion. Their image is taking a beating. Not that they had a base among the majority of the nation, such actions by Mr. Rao and the Left's abetment of the AAI employees strike, now beginning to anger the common traveller, will show everyone for the no-good, Chinese lapdogs that they are.


EC detects 1.1 lakh fake ration cards in WB

A total of 1.1 lakh fake ration cards were cancelled in West Midnapore and the names of around 48,000 false and dead voters were detected and deleted from the voters' lists in Purulia and South Dinajpur by Election Commission observers touring all the 19 districts in poll-bound West Bengal for the second time in two months.

District Magistrate, West Midnapore, Dushmanta Nareila said 56 lakh ration cards had been issued in the district against a total population of 51,934,11 as per the 2001 census report.

He said the EC observer, K J Rao, of Bihar Assembly election fame, had asked the sub-divisional and district controllers to submit a detailed report on this discrepancy by Saturday, reports from districts said.

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Election Commission steps up pressure on Left Front

The 19-strong team will be headed by K. J. Rao, Special Adviser to Election Commission, who is credited with holding Bihar’s first free and fair polls resulting in the rout of Lalu Prasad Yadav’s Rashtriya Janata Dal ruling Bihar for 15 years.

The second team’s mission is to take stock of developments since their last visit and check how much action has been taken on complaints they had referred to the state administration.

Read between the lines, the Election Commission appears determined to put an end to what West Bengal opposition parties describe as the Left Front’s ‘scientific rigging’ to retain its grip on power in election after election.

The team will begin its week-long tour from today, it has been announced. Rao, who earned kudos for his role in the Bihar elections, has been assigned West Midnapore district — a Maoist bastion witnessing an increasingly violent and protracted red-versus-red battle that has left many comrades and policemen dead.

The CPM yesterday reiterated its earlier grouse against poll observers. Biswas said that “observers are welcome but if they take media personnel along again, we will have to take up the matter with the election commission” — revealing that the publicity being given to the Election Commission’s cleansing operation is hurting the red party’s image.

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1 lakh bogus voters in Nadia and still counting

Nearly a lakh “bogus” voters have been detected in Nadia alone.

Members of the 19-strong team of observers, now on the second leg of their mission to weed out such voters, arrived in their assigned destinations today. And that they have a mammoth task on hand became evident from one district.

After a meeting with Nadia observer Amitabh Rajan, district magistrate Rajesh Pandey said by February 15, when the final electoral roll would be published, the number of dead, shifted or Bangladeshi voters is expected to go past the one-lakh mark.

About 3.5 lakh dead/shifted voters have been identified across the state so far.

The 90,000 bogus voters in Nadia were identified following an inquiry initiated by Election Commission adviser K.J. Rao last month.

But, unlike Rao, who never disclosed his destination to the media, Rajan bared his plans. He handed to journalists his schedule for the next seven days.

The CPM reacted sharply. “This is not done. EC (Election Commission) officials are not supposed to inform others about their movement. But some observers are doing just that. We never made public the complaints filed by our party,’’ said Rabin Deb, the government’s chief whip.