India, March 10 -- Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar said on Tuesday that the poll panel will initiate strict action against government officials against whom lapses are found in the run-up to the assembly elections in West Bengal while adding that the Election Commission of India (ECI) has zero tolerance towards violence and intimidation.

"The ECI would like to assure the voters that officials, associated with the poll process, will have to follow the law and the poll panel's instructions. The ECI will take stringent actions against any officials, whatever his rank may be, if lapses are found," Kumar told the media.

The full bench of the EC, headed by Kumar and election commissioners Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Vivek Joshi, ...