With no violence recorded in Bengal in its most crucial polls ever,-So after the Bihar model, a Bengal model has emerged and will be replicated in UP.

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EC seeks Bengal poll model for UP

Ajanta Chakraborty Jul 6, 2011, 01.56am IST

KOLKATA: The Election Commission wants its strategy and conduct of the 2011 assembly elections in Bengal as a model for the next year's polls in Uttar Pradesh. So after the Bihar model, a Bengal model has emerged and will be replicated in UP.

The UP election seems to be the country's most talked about event in the run-up to 2014 parliamentary polls. Chief election commissioner S Y Qureishi and his team have started warming up to the polls. At hand, they have the recently conducted Bengal polls that saw the end of the LF's 34-year-old rule. Deploying booth-level officers at every polling station and expenditure observers, central forces in each booth, webcasting of polls, besides texting of polling status each minute were some of the innovative ways of handling the most-challenging elections after that in Bihar. With no violence recorded in Bengal in its most crucial polls ever, the election commission is trying to adopt this model in UP.