ECI asks Bengal police to contain violence

The Election Commission of India (ECI) asked West Bengal Police to execute all pending non-bailable warrants (NBWs) within this month and to contain violence before the announcement of assembly poll dates. Eyeing to conduct the coming assembly polls in the state peacefully, the ECI is also mulling the option of deploying around 25 per cent more security personnel than what was used during the 2019 Lok Sabha election. The full bench of the ECI, which visited the state to review preparedness for the assembly polls due in April-May, held a meeting with the nodal officer of the state police, ADG (Law and Order) Gyanwant Singh, and expressed discontent with the execution of NBWs as well as the law and order situation.