Subhechcha Ganguly 
Six companies of the central troops have already been requisitioned by the SEC for the July 8 panchayat elections, the SEC informed the court.The West Bengal State Election Commission (SEC) was ordered by the Calcutta High Court on Wednesday to send a request for more than 82,000 members of the central forces within 24 hours for deployment in all districts throughout the state prior to the impending panchayat elections.During the 2013 panchayat elections in the state, the SEC requisitioned 82,000 members of the central forces, according to a division bench chaired by Chief Justice TS Sivagnanam.
“The SEC shall require sufficient central forces to be deployed in all districts within 24 hours. There must be at least as many corporations as were requisitioned for the 2013 election. Given the growth in the number of districts, it must be unquestionably higher. In these ten years, the electorate would have grown as well, the division bench claimed.Six companies of the central troops have already been requisitioned by the SEC for the July 8 panchayat elections, the SEC informed the court.
The court ordered the SEC to requisition a sufficient number of central forces troops within 24 hours, noting that West Bengal now has 22 districts, up from 17 in 2013 and an increase in electorate size over the past ten years.Following the Supreme Court’s approval of the deployment of central forces for the upcoming panchayat elections in West Bengal and the dismissal of petitions filed by the state government and the state poll panel challenging a Calcutta HC order in this regard, the state poll panel placed a request for only 22 companies of central forces (each company consists of around 80 active personnel) on Tuesday.
