{"id":6185,"date":"2026-04-20T20:46:37","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T15:16:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/oppn-to-bring-fresh-motion-to-remove-cec-gyanesh-kumar-says-tmcs-derek-obrien-alleges-bjp-planning-conspiracy-in-bengal-india-news\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T20:46:37","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T15:16:37","slug":"oppn-to-bring-fresh-motion-to-remove-cec-gyanesh-kumar-says-tmcs-derek-obrien-alleges-bjp-planning-conspiracy-in-bengal-india-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/oppn-to-bring-fresh-motion-to-remove-cec-gyanesh-kumar-says-tmcs-derek-obrien-alleges-bjp-planning-conspiracy-in-bengal-india-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Oppn to bring fresh motion to remove CEC Gyanesh Kumar, says TMC’s Derek O’Brien; alleges BJP planning ‘conspiracy’ in Bengal | India News"},"content":{"rendered":"


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NEW DELHI: Opposition parties will bring a fresh motion to impeach Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar, Trinamool Congress<\/a> (TMC) MP and spokesperson Derek O\u2019Brien said on Monday.\u201c19 political parties and around 300 MPs had earlier moved an impeachment notice against the CEC. In the coming days, a fresh impeachment notice with additional charges will be brought,\u201d O\u2019Brien told reporters at a press conference in Kolkata.Earlier this month, both Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla and Rajya Sabha Chairman, Vice President CP Radhakrishnan, rejected the opposition\u2019s notice seeking the removal of Kumar, who has repeatedly been accused of favouring the ruling BJP.The build-up to the upcoming assembly elections in West Bengal\u2014where the TMC has been in power since 2011 and will seek a fourth consecutive term\u2014has been particularly acrimonious, with tensions over issues such as the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls and the Election Commission\u2019s (EC) removal of IAS and IPS officers in the state. As the Model Code of Conduct is currently in force, the EC is currently overseeing the state machinery.The earlier motion to remove Kumar was the first such move against a sitting CEC.152 of West Bengal\u2019s 294 assembly seats will vote on Thursday, while the remaining 142 constituencies will go to polls on April 29. Counting of votes is scheduled for May 4.<\/p>\n

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Meanwhile, O\u2019Brien further alleged that the BJP, which is the ruling party at the Centre and the principal opposition in the state, is hatching a \u201clarger conspiracy\u201d ahead of the second phase.\u201cWe have credible information that a meeting has been called by the home minister with the heads of the CBI, ED and NIA. In the next 100 to 150 hours, some serious or devious action has been planned before the second phase of the polls,\u201d he claimed.The Rajya Sabha member added that such developments were likely in districts of south Bengal.O\u2019Brien also remarked that Union home minister Amit Shah is acting like a \u201cfull-time BJP worker.\u201d Shah, the BJP\u2019s chief strategist and a former party president, had earlier said he would spend 15 days in the state.The TMC MP also accused the BJP of deploying \u201cdisproportionate force\u201d to defeat chief minister and party supremo Mamata Banerjee.\u201cTo defeat a woman, you need 18 cabinet ministers, the prime minister, the home minister, the defence minister, several chief ministers, central agencies, and thousands of security personnel,\u201d he stated.<\/div>\n


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CEC Gyanesh Kumar; TMC MP Derek O’Brien NEW DELHI: Opposition parties will bring a fresh motion to impeach Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar, Trinamool Congress (TMC) MP and spokesperson Derek O\u2019Brien said on Monday.\u201c19 political parties and around 300 MPs had earlier moved an impeachment notice against the CEC. In the coming days, a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6186,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[133],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6185","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-country"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6185\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}