The Trinamool Congress on Wednesday accused the Election Commission of bias and dubbed it a “nikamma Commission” even as it submitted a memorandum to the poll body against transfers of top police officers in West Bengal just before the first phase of voting in the Lok Sabha elections.

 Party leaders Derek O’Brien, Sukhendu Sekhar Ray and Dr Chandan Mitra submitted a nine-point memorandum protesting what they called was “EC bias”. In the memorandum, the TMC said the removal of Kolkata Police Commissioner Anuj Sharma along with those of Bidhan Nagar Police Commissioner Gyanwant Singh, Birbhum SP Shyam Singh, Diamond Harbour SP S Selvamurugan and Airport Division DCP Avaru Rabindranath, have been effected “without following proper procedure”.

“People are saying Nirvachan Commission has become ‘nikamma Commission’. Enough is enough.

Transfers of good, honest senior police officers of Bengal are being decided by a traitor who now works out of the BJP Central office in Kolkata,” said Derek, indicating the hand of former TMC MP Mukul Roy, who is now in the BJP, in the removal of the Cooch Behar Superintendent of Police Abhishek Gupta by the poll body on April 9.

“In this case, we have observed that the transfers were made soon after complaints were made and instructions issued by BJP leaders who publicly claimed” that such actions were taken by the ECI at the initiative of their party, the memorandum alleged.

Earlier, in a letter to the chief election commissioner on Tuesday, the TMC had alleged that Gupta’s transfer was “arbitrary, motivated and biased” and claimed the poll body was taking instructions from BJP leaders. West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee had alleged that the electoral body was working at the behest of the ruling party at the Centre.