The CPI-M today hailed the Election Commission ruling out the possibility of advancing the 2011 assembly elections in West Bengal.
CPI-M politburo member Biman Bose told a press conference here that the assembly elections could be advanced if the state government wrote to the Election Commission.
"One has to know the jurisdiction of the Election Commission and provisions of the Constitution," he said.
"Election commissioner SY Quraishi has clear ideas about the jurisdiction of the Election Commission and about the Indian Constitution. His observations are right," Bose said after a meeting of the Left Front here.
He said that for early assembly polls, the Centre would have to impose President's rule. "If they impose president's rule, we are ready to face it, but I don't think so."
Without naming Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee who recently said that the assembly elections could be held after the pujas in October, he maintained, "Those who are speaking about advancing the election need to study the Constitution."
