Chief Election Commissioner S Y Quraishi has said that discussion about holding the next Assembly elections in West Bengal would take place only after December 11.
Speaking to mediapersons in Kolkata on Friday, Quraishi said: ?The due date of the West Bengal Assembly Elections is June 11, 2011. Since the Indian Constitution grants a flexibility of six months, we will discuss about this issue only after December 11. It is too early to comment on the matter.?
There has been lot of speculation, particularly from the Trinamool Congress, about early Assembly elections in the state. Trinamool chief Mamata Banerjee has repeatedly said in various public appearances that the incumbent Left Front government has lost its mandate and that the Assembly elections will be preponed to 2010.
On the revision of electoral rolls, Quraishi said the EC is working in right earnest to update the existing rolls so that ?they are perfect and ready much before the elections.?
The CEC also assured that work of preparing electoral rolls in the Maoist-affected Junglemahal area will not be hampered or deferred. ?India is not a homogenous state and every state has its own problems. Such problems will not affect our work,? he added.