Kolkata, March 8 Some people waved black flags and raised slogans against the Election Commission on Sunday evening as Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, who arrived on a three-day visit to West Bengal, was travelling by road from the Kolkata Airport to his hotel.
Ruling Trinamool Congress MLA Tapas Chatterjee, who led one such protest in New Town here against the special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in West Bengal, claimed that the protests were participated in by people from all walks of life.
Kumar arrived here for a full-bench meeting of the commission to review preparations for the upcoming state assembly elections.
Security personnel deployed in large numbers set up barricades, preventing the protesters from approaching the road through which the CEC was travelling to his hotel from the airport.
"Our chief minister is holding a sit-in in central Kolkata, and we are protesting here against the Chief Election Commissioner, who is anti-democracy and anti-Constitution," Chatterjee said as some people raised slogans against Kumar.
Chief Minister Banerjee has been vocal in her criticism of the CEC, accusing him of being a "stooge" of the BJP.