Kolkata/New Delhi, April 8 -- In unusual plain-speaking, the Election Commission of India has told the ruling Trinamool Congress in West Bengal that this time, the election will be free from any kind of threat, intimidation and corruption.
Hours after its meeting with a TMC delegation on Wednesday, ECI posted under the title 'ECI's Straight-talk to Trinamool Congress', the poll body wrote: "This time, the elections in West Bengal would surely be fear-free, violence-free, intimidation-free, inducement-free and without any booth jamming and source jamming."The sharp message came hours after a brief but tense closed-door meeting in New Delhi between Election Commission officials led by Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar and a Trinamool...