Kolkata, March 17 -- In a significant move to tighten the noose on the administration, the Election Commission of India has deployed the highest deployment of General Observers and Police Observers for the 2026 Assembly elections in West Bengal, achieving what officials describe as "full coverage" across all constituencies.
According to a notification issued by the ECI, the state will be covered by 474 observers including 294 General Observers - one for each assembly constituency -- a distinction unmatched by any other poll-bound state this election season, 100 financial observers and 84 police observers.
In comparison, other major states fall significantly short of this one-to-one observer-to-constituency ratio.
On the other hand, Assam...