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The Election Commission’s (EC’s) unprecedented decision to cut short election campaign in West Bengal while ensuring that prime minister goes ahead with two of his election rallies already scheduled for Thursday in the state is a brazen misuse of Article 324 of our Constitution. If the ground for such a move was indeed growing incidents of disruption and violence during the campaigning, then, as the opposition parties rightly questioned, why not a clamp down on campaigning with immediate effect? The motive behind the EC’s timing of the ban order is suspect.
Relieving DG CID Rajiv Kumar facing heat from the Central
