Asansol, 13 Mar. 04 :  
The villagers of Chapui, a village near Asansol has called for a vote boycott this Loksava Election to protest the shifting of the sole booth from the village's Chapui Khas Colliery Primary School to a distant Chapui Primary School. The villagers have submitted a mass petition to the SDO, Asansol to protest this change.

The villagers informed that, the school where the booth has been shifted is quite far from the locality as well as women will not feel safe to go for the polling as illegal country liquor is been manufactured & sold beside the school. "Till date the polling has been done at the Khas Colliery School very peacefully & the facilities at the school is much better for the polling & security officials. No complaints has been made in this matter till date, then why this change" commented a villager. "We had submitted a mass petition signed by more than 500 villagers in protest to the SDO to draw attention of the ruling party & the government. If things doesn't change, all villagers will restrain from polling this year." added he.

The O.C. Elections, Asansol was contacted by bardhaman.com & he commented that, "the booth change was done in accordance to the guidelines of the Election Commission. We did discuss the matter with all the political parties regarding this & no one protested. Even if, yesterday we had a all-party meeting & no one objected in this issue. However, we will keep a close watch regarding this matter"