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Is this a state of emergency, asks Purnendu Bose, before flouting 5 booth rules

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TT Bureau Published 26.04.16, 12:00 AM

April 25, 2016: Bose was filmed marshalling three of his aides who were casting false votes in his presence at a booth in Shantimoynagar Primary School in Kestopur. The Trinamul minister lost his cool when his gang was prevented by central force personnel from repeating the same offence in booth after booth that he visited in Baguiati and Kestopur after that. 
“Why are you checking voter slips?” he shouted at a jawan on duty outside a booth at Chandiberia Primary School in Kestopur. When the man in uniform tried to explain to him that there were four booths inside the building and he was asking for the voter slips to guide the voters to the right booth, Bose shot back: “It is not your duty. You people are behaving as if the voting is taking place in a state of Emergency!” 

At another booth in Jagatpur, Baguiati, Bose was caught ordering a central force member out of the booth after the police had driven out three Trinamul supporters crowding the EVM.

 

Video footage telecast on ABP Ananda showed at least four aides of Purnendu Bose inside a booth on Monday. 

Two of them were voting while Bose was engaged in a conversation with a man who looked like a polling official. One of them was seen pressing the EVM machine twice. Another man was seen loitering inside the booth even after voting. All this happened while Bose, labour minister and Trinamul’s candidate from Rajarhat-Gopalpur, was parked inside the booth at the Shantimoynagar Prathamik Vidyalaya in Kestopur

 

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