New Delhi, Dec 5 (IANS) Shiromani Akali Dal leader Harsimrat Kaur Badal on Friday appealed to the Election Commission of India to order the suspension of Patiala Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Varun Sharma, besides taking disciplinary action against him and all other police officers involved in acting upon illegal directions to obstruct nominations and intimidate voters in the Block Samiti and Zila Parishad elections in Punjab.

The Member of Parliament from Bathinda, who submitted a memorandum to the ECI here, urged deployment of paramilitary forces in the state to conduct the elections and constitution of a time-bound high-level inquiry under the ECI to authenticate the audio recording as well as fix responsibility for mass-scale violence, rigging and subversion of the democratic

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