Kolkata: The Khardah constituency’s TMC candidate Kajal Sinha’s wife Nandita Sinha filed a murder case against West Bengal Election Commissioner. The TMC contesting candidate Kajal Sinha from Khardah constituency in 2021 State Assembly elections died on April 25^th due to Covid – 19.

Kajal Sinha’s wife Nandita Sinha has now accused Deputy Election Commissioner Sudeep Jain and other officials of “careless and negligent” behaviour that led to the death of husband and several other candidates.

Accusing the Commission of “self-serving blind motives”, Nandita Sinha, in her complaint to the police, wrote while the entire nation was struggling to cope with the Covid – 19 crises the EC decided on a staggering eight-phase poll in Bengal that stretched from March 27 to April 29. In her complaint she mentioned the comparison; elections in Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Pondicherry were held and completed in one day in one phase… And Assam saw voting in three phases in a span of three days.

In her complaint, she also mentioned that the Trinamool Congress had requested the EC twice on April 16 and Aril 20 to club the remaining phase of polls citing the “massive flare-up of Covid – 19 cases” in the state. The Commission, she said, had deliberately ignored all evidences of the impending catastrophe even after an alarm was sounded by the Calcutta High Court.

Nandita Sinha pointed out that the Election Commission was in control of the law and order in Bengal and the Central paramilitary forces during the election, and was in a position to ensure that Covid protocols are maintained, she wrote in her complaint.