Trinamool Congress candidate Rabindra Nath Ghosh was on Thursday allegedly caught on camera while threatening a polling officer inside a booth during the sixth and final phase of the West Bengal assembly elections.
Taking cognizance of the media report, the Election Commission has sought a report from the district administration.
In a video broadcast by a TV channel, Ghosh is seen entering a polling booth in Cooch Behar's Natabari constituency, from where he is contesting, and verbally intimidating the official.
"You are acting as a CPI - M (Communist Party of India - Marxist) tout; you are here to indulge in touting for the CPI - M?"
Ghosh is heard saying and asking the official's name and where he was employed.
As the official says he is posted at a primary school, Ghosh retorts: "Oh, primary school!
that will serve me better. "
He then moved out of the booth and while boarding his car, he is seen threatening a polling agent for being a "CPI - M tout".
Condemning Ghosh's act, the opposition demanded his immediate arrest.
"The Election Commission should immediately take action in the matter and (Rabindra Nath) Ghosh should be immediately arrested, " said Revolutionary Socialist Party leader Ashok Ghosh.
Another Trinamool leader Sonali Guha - - who is the assembly deputy speaker - - was allegedly caught on camera while talking over phone to "bat and drive away a CPI - M agent" from a booth in her constituency Satgachhia in South 24 Parganas.