EC team to arrive on Sunday
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In an unprecedented move that is viewed as a snub to the state government, the Election Commission of India is sending a six-member team of observers headed by Bihar Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Sudhir Kumar Rakesh to Kolkata on Sunday to assess the law and order situation in the state. The team members will visit different districts, particularly the troubled-torn ones like West Midnapore, Bankura, Purulia, Burdwan, and Birbhum among others and assess the situation there. "The team will decide themselves where they will be going and whom they will be meeting. Our job is to provide them only logistic support," said Sunil Kumar Gupta, state CEO today. The team will get the brief from the ECI and no official from the state election commission office will be with them, said another state CEO official.
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