Vadodara, Aug 10: Shades of Seshan emerged in Chief Election Commissioner J M Lyngdoh, who appeared to be in a foul mood while touring riot affected areas of Vadodara today.
He gave Vadodara district collector Bhagyesh Jha a tongue-lashing, reprimanding him for "not having complete information" and forced officials to keep a safe distance from him as he met the complainant of the Best Bakery case.

A furious Lyngdoh, accompanied by election commissioners T S Krishnamurthy and B V Tandon, lashed out at Jha as he fumbled to answer a question at Hanuman Tekri, where mobs had burnt alive 14 people inside the bakery on March 2.

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"You don`t have complete information. Are you not ashamed of yourself?" he shouted at Jha as Amin Sayeed of the Maulana Azad Foundation briefed Lyngdoh about the happenings of that night and told him that no Muslim had come back to Hanuman Tekri yet.

It was at this point, gauging the fury of the CEC, that city police commissioner D D Tuteja did the vanishing act and left the team to itself.

From one riot-affected area of the city to another Lyngdoh was faced with a plea that he seems to be quite familiar now, "Give us a roof and we will vote."

After a tour of worst-affected areas like Kisanwadi, Raja Rani Talav area in Panigate, Bhavcharawad and Bavamanpura, Lyngdoh headed straight for the Circuit House in the afternoon where the complainant in the Best Bakery case, Zahira Shaikh, was waiting for him.
Bureau Report