Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar will meet senior West Bengal officials and police officers on Tuesday to review preparations for the upcoming assembly elections. He is also expected to hold a press conference amid controversy over alleged deletions in the post SIR electoral rolls.

Kumar, along with Election Commissioners Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Vivek Joshi, will meet Chief Secretary Nandini Chakravorty, DGP Piyush Pandey and other officials to assess election arrangements and review coordination between the state administration and security agencies, including the deployment of central armed police forces.

The commission will also meet the chief electoral officer, the state police nodal officer and the CAPF nodal officer to evaluate logistics and security planning. It is also expected to interact with booth level officers and address the media later in the day. These meetings are part of the Election Commission three day visit to West Bengal to review poll preparedness. On Monday, the commission met representatives of political parties in Kolkata, where several parties suggested conducting the elections in one or two phases and called for strict action to prevent voter intimidation and activities of anti social elements.

During the discussions, the CEC stressed that any failure to maintain law and order ahead of the elections would not be tolerated and highlighted the need for strict monitoring to ensure free and fair polls. Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee accused Kumar of threatening state officials during a meeting with the administration and said such conduct by constitutional authorities was unacceptable. Speaking during her protest in central Kolkata against the Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls, she alleged that the chief election commissioner had used a threatening tone with the state bureaucracy.