Amidst reports of unabated killing of political workers in West Bengal, the Centre today said it was confident that peaceful elections will be held in the state in May and promised adequate security during the polls there as well as four other election-bound states.
"I am absolutely confident that we will hold peaceful elections in West Bengal as well as other states," home minister P Chidambaram said when asked to comment about the reports of murder of activists of political parties.
The Home Minister said holding of election was the responsibility of the Election Commission and the Centre's responsibility was to provide security forces to the EC in order to hold peaceful elections.
“We will send central forces to all the states according to the requirement of the EC,” he said.
Assembly elections in West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Assam and Puducherry are likely to be held in April-May.
Asked whether he had written the letter to Bhattacharjee under political pressure, the Home Minister said, “I do nothing under political pressure. I even do not answer your question under political pressure”.