India
oi-Ajay Joseph Raj P
Kolkata, Apr 29: Amid the ongoing 8th phase of West Bengal Assembly elections 2021, the widow of Trinamool Congress (TMC) candidate Kajal Sinha, who died of COVID-19 on April 25, has filed a complaint against the Election Commission.
Accoridng to reports, Nandita, Sinha’s wife, has accused Deputy Election Commissioner Sudeep Jain along with other officials of the poll panel of not ensuring the “safety of candidates or general public during the ongoing pandemic”.
Sinha was the TMC candidate for the Khardaha constituency in North 24 Parganas, which underwent polling in the sixth phase of the West Bengal assembly elections.
Apart from Sinha, three other politicians including Revolutionary Socialist Party (RSP) candidate from Jangipur Assembly Constituency in Murshidabad Pradip Kumar Nandi, Congress candidate from Samsherganj in Murshidabad district Rezaul Haque and an…