‘BJP & ECI Openly Stole Election’: TMC Leader Saket Gokhale After Manoj Agarwal Named Bengal Chief Secretary
· Free Press Journal
Former Rajya Sabha MP and TMC leader Saket Gokhale on Monday launched scathing attack on the Bhartiya Janata Party and the Election Commission of India over the appointment of Chief Electoral Officer Manoj Agarwal as the Chief Secretary of Bengal by newly formed Suvendu Adhikar government.
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Chief Electoral Officer Manoj Aggarwal who conducted the West Bengal election for the ECI has been appointed Chief Secretary of Bengal by the new BJP Govt.
— Saket Gokhale (@SaketGokhale) May 11, 2026
BJP & ECI are now being open about stealing the election.
Are the courts BLIND or COMPLICIT? This is beyond shameless.
West Bengal Chief Electoral Officer Manoj Kumar Agarwal has been appointed as the Chief Secretary to the Government of West Bengal. pic.twitter.com/xkuN3ExnD4
— ANI (@ANI) May 11, 2026
Reacting to the development, in a X post, Gokhale wrote, Chief Electoral Officer Manoj Agarwal who conducted the West Bengal election for the ECI has been appointed Chief Secretary of Bengal by the new BJP Govt."
"BJP & ECI are now being open about stealing the election," he further wrote.
West Bengal Assembly Elections 2026: Suvendu Adhikari Shares WhatsApp Screenshots, Alleges Leak Of Counting Duty Details; Seeks EC ProbeQuestioning to role of judiciary, he wrote, "Are the courts BLIND or COMPLICIT? This is beyond shameless."
Agarwal, senior IAS officer of the 1990 West Bengal cadre, oversaw the recently concluded 2026 Assembly elections and the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in the state. Then ruling party, TMC strongly opposed the SIR excercise in the state, under which close to 90 names were deleted from the electoral roll.