By IANS,
Kolkata: The Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) West Bengal unit chief Rahul Sinha Saturday launched an indefinite hunger strike outside the state chief electoral officer’s (CEO) office, alleging non-cooperation by district election officials which was hindering the party’s election campaign.
“Due to non-cooperation of the administrative officials in several districts, many of our campaign schedules including rallies of BJP president Nitin Gadkari and Leader of the Opposition in the Rajya Sabha Arun Jaitley, have been cancelled. Several meetings by our leaders before the first two phases of assembly polls were delayed because of the improper coordination,” said Sinha.
He demanded immediate suspension of North 24 Parganas Additional District Magistrate Randhir Kumar and officer in-charge of Uluberia police station in Howrah for their “non-cooperation”.
“We could not get permission to requisition helicopters or hold meetings in time. Unless the CEO assures us that necessary actions will be taken to resolve the problem, I will not call off my hunger strike,” Sinha added.