Kolkata (West Bengal), Jan. 20 -- : Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury on Tuesday wrote to Chief Election Commissioner Sunil Arora saying that administration of municipalities and municipal corporations in West Bengal was being left to an administrator for two or more years after the end of the term of the previous board of councillors and these "elections cannot be withheld by the state government at its whims".
He alleged that the state government was not holding these elections for years "due to political vendetta" and there was "willful violation of the essence of constitutional mandate".
He accused the ruling government of "ill political motives" and said it had "withheld" municipal elections for "unlawful gains" in the assembly ...