New Delhi, March 31 -- A district election officer (DEO) in West Bengal asked 49 doctors of a state government hospital to join election duty by end of March, before protests by medical authorities prompted the roll back of the order, people familiar with the matter said. According to Election Commission guidelines, government hospital doctors are usually not assigned poll duty in assembly or parliamentary elections because medical staff, including doctors, nurses and ANMs, are categorised under essential services and are generally not requisitioned for election duty. In this case, nearly half of the hospital's administrative staff have been deployed in the West Bengal poll process, said Ramprasad Roy, the college principal. DEO, Hooghly is...