By IANS,
Kolkata : Though polling in the first phase of the West Bengal assembly elections passed off peacefully Monday without any report of untoward incidents, two poll officials died following heart attacks, said a senior election officer Tuesday.
“In two separate polling stations of Kumargram constituency in Jalpaiguri district, Pramod Chandra Roy, an assistant teacher at Gairbota High School and Maneshwar Roy, an inspector of food and supplies department, died Monday, while they were on poll duty,” said state chief electoral officer (CEO) Sunil Kumar Gupta.
“Maneshwar was the presiding officer in a polling station and he suffered a heart attack at the time of polling and died, while Pramod complained of chest pain while submitting the polling materials after the completion of poll,” he said.
Meanwhile, Deputy Election Commissioner Vinod Zutshi, who is in-charge of West Bengal, will come to Kolkata for a three-day visit April 20-23, to discuss poll preparedness in the districts, which will go to poll in for the second and third phases, Gupta added.
Apart from holding video conferences with the police superintendents and district electoral officers of Birbhum, Nadia and Murshidabad, Zutshi will also hold meetings with the administrative authorities of Howrah, Hooghly, North and South 24 Parganas and Kolkata, he said.
However, sources in the CEO’s office said Chief Election Commissioner S.Y. Quraishi is slated to visit the state April 28. The full bench of the poll-panelwill extensively visit different areas of Maoist-infested Jungalmahal covering the districts of Bankura, Purulia and West Midnapore, on helicopters.