Bengal Bypolls: EC Intervenes After Police Blocks Free Media Movement In Asansol

The Trinamool Congress state general secretary and the party spokesman, Kunal Ghosh tried to downplay the incident claiming that the entire incident took place due to some misunderstanding.

Bengal Bypolls: EC Intervenes After Police Blocks Free Media Movement In Asansol

The Election Commission of India (ECI) took exception to an event of state police blocking free media movement within the Asansol Lok Sabha constituency where bypolls are underway on Tuesday.

On receiving the complaints on this count from the media persons, the office of the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO), West Bengal intervened and the state police withdrew the restrictions on media movement but after keeping a group of media persons stranded at Barabani under Asansol Lok Sabha for around 40 minutes.