Burdwan, 01 May. 04: 
Almost 500 polling personnel have been summoned from other districts & states for conducting the 14th Lokshava election in Burdwan district. Polling officials from the neighboring states like Jharkhand, Bihar & Assam will be posted in the district. Recently at an order, the Election commission declared to engage polling personnel from other states for conducting vote at the parliamentary election in West Bengal.

The district magistrate, Subrata Gupta told bardhaman.com, "so far I have been noticed by the state election commission that 200 polling personnel are coming from Dhubri of Assam. We will arrange special train to bring them here. These bengali speaking polling personnel from Assam will be engaged at the Katwa constituency. Another 100 polling personnel will come from Shahebganj, Dumka & Pakur. Although not finalised, most of them are likely to be posted at some sensitive centers of the district."  

District's opposition leaders expressed their satisfaction with this strong directive of the Election Commission. A Trinamool Congress leader told, "we are very happy to know that, the ECI have ordered the district election commission to engage polling officials from other state. This again proved that the ECI has agreed with our claim that the leftist use the polling officials as a part of their electoral machinery. Although we appreciate this move of the ECI, we also request them to depute 100% of the polling personnel from other state in future."`